Exodus - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 85
The Five Books of Moses
off the earrings of gold that are in the ears of your wives, sons, and daughters, and bring them to me! All the people puiled 0E the rings
of gold which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron, and he took them from their hands, and modelled for it with at tool, and made a. calf by casting, and said; ‘Israe1! these are your Gods who
brought you up out of the land of the Mitzereim. Then Aaron paid it reverence and
built an altar before it. Aaron also proclaimed and said ‘ A feast to the POWER to-morrow} So they arose early on the morrow
and offered sacrifices, and presented thank offerings. Then the People sat down to eat and drink, and got up to play. The 1.,0120 however said to Moses,
‘ Go E Descend l—·For your People whom you led out of Mitzer have cor- rupted themselves! They have soon turned from the path which I com— mended them! They have made for themselvesia cast—metal calf and they are worshipping it! And they sacrifice I`his is your God, Israel! that brought you up from the And the I fear for this People; for it is a people of stiff neck.——So now let Me alone, and My anger will burn against them, and consume them, and I will make from you a great nation. But Moses fell upon his face before
his Evan-x.1v1No Gon, and said ; ‘ Why, LORD, should You r auger burn against Your people, whom You have brought up out of the land oi the Mitzeraim with great power and with a strong arm? Why should the Mitzerites say; ‘ He brought them out 82-43
for evil, to kill-them among the mountains, and to exterminate them from the face of the earth? ’-—-Turn away Your anger and forgive Your people. Remember Abraham, and Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, what you swore to them by YOURSELF, and promised them that their race should beas numerous as the stars of heaven; and aiso of this land which You promised to give to their de— So the Even-Livmo had compassion upon the sin which His people had done against Him; @32 Quinn at Qnh Wrultzu. Then Moses turned and descended
from the hill, with the two tables of the Law in his hands ;—·—·both tablets written upon both sides with writing. And GOD had made those tablets; and GGD wrote the writing that was en- graved upon the tablets. When joshua heard the voice of the
peoples at sin, he said to Moses `; ‘There is the sound of war in the It is- not the sound
of contention with swords ;-——nor_is it the sound of contention in charging, And when they approached the
camp, and saw the calf, and the dancing, than the auger of Moses burnt, and he Hung thc two tablets from hishands,aud broke them under the mountain. (He afterwards took the calf which
they had made and. burnt it in the fire, and ground it until it was like dust, and threw it upon the face of the water, and. made the children of Israel drink it.) Then Moses demanded of Aaron,
‘ What have this People done to you, that you should bring upon them this greatsin ? ’ Let not my
Prince’s anger burn! You knowvthis people, how bad they are! and they said to me, ‘ Make Gods for us, who can go before us-- for as for this fellow Moses, who brought us up from the land ofthe Mitzeraim, we know not what has become of him. 16 18 20 21 22
1 V. A2O,»iIl parentheses, does not refer to the
immediateact of Moses, but to his subsequent action after suppressing the revolt. The nar- ragvistarts again at v. zz, See V, 30. Ch. xxxli. r
