Exodus 32:19

As soon as he came near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. Then Moses’ anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.

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In The King James Version

And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.

In Context

18He said, “It isn’t the voice of those who shout for victory. It is not the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear.”

20He took the calf which they had made, and burned it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink it.

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Cross References

Exodus 15:20Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.

Exodus 32:11Moses begged the LORD his God, and said, “LORD, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

Numbers 12:3Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

Deuteronomy 10:2I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.”

2 Samuel 6:14David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod.

Lamentations 5:15The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 32:16-21

Moses Breaks the Tablets of the Law. ( b. c. 1491.) 15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. 16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables. 17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp. 18 And he said, It is not the voice of… Read the whole commentary →

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