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me and the children of Israel for ever: for
in
six days the L
ORD
made heaven and earth, and on the
seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
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And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount
Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
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And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered
themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us;
for
as for
this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is
become of him.
2
And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which
are
in the ears
of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring
them
unto me.
3
And all the people
brake off the golden earrings which
were
in their ears, and brought
them
unto Aaron.
4
And he
received
them
at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf:
and they said, These
be
thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
5
And
when Aaron saw
it,
he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow
is
a feast to the L
ORD
.
6
And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and
brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
7
And the L
ORD
said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out
of the land of Egypt, have corrupted
themselves:
8
They have turned aside quickly out of the way
which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have
sacrificed thereunto, and said, These
be
thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the
land of Egypt.
9
And the L
ORD
said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it
is
a
stiffnecked people:
10
Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and
that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
11
And Moses besought the L
ORD
his God, and said, L
ORD
, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought
forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
12
Wherefore should the
Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and
to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil
against thy people.
13
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest
by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all
this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit
it
for ever.
14
And
the L
ORD
repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
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
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