Author: Jefferson Vann

Exodus 36

Exodus 36:1 “Bezalel and Oholiab should work in accordance with all that Yahveh has commanded along with every craftsman in whom Yahveh has put skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary.”

Exodus 36:2 And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose mind Yahveh had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work.

Exodus 36:3 And they received from Moses all the contribution that the people of Israel had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning,

Exodus 36:4 so that all the craftsmen who were doing every sort of task on the sanctuary came, each from the task that he was doing,

Exodus 36:5 and said to Moses, “The people are bringing much more than enough for doing the work that Yahveh has commanded us to do.”

Exodus 36:6 So Moses gave command, and word was proclaimed throughout the camp, “Let no man or woman do anything more for the contribution for the sanctuary.” So, the people were held back from bringing,

Exodus 36:7 because the material they had was sufficient to do all the work, and more.

Exodus 36:8 And all the experts among the workers constructed the tabernacle with ten curtains. They were made of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns, with cherubs woven in by a designer.

Exodus 36:9 The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains were the same size.

Exodus 36:10 He joined five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he joined to one another.

Exodus 36:11 He made loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain of the first set. Likewise, he made them on the edge of the outermost curtain of the second set.

Exodus 36:12 He made fifty loops on the one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was in the second set. The loops were opposite one another.

Exodus 36:13 And he made fifty clasps of gold and joined the curtains one to the other with clasps. So, the tabernacle was a single whole.

Exodus 36:14 He also made curtains of she-goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle. He made eleven curtains.

Exodus 36:15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. The eleven curtains were the same size.

Exodus 36:16 He joined five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.

Exodus 36:17 And he made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain of the one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the other connecting curtain.

Exodus 36:18 And he made fifty clasps of bronze to join the tent together that it might be a single whole.

Exodus 36:19 And he made for the tent a covering of tanned rams’ skins and male goatskin leather.

Exodus 36:20 Then he made the structure for the tabernacle of acacia wood.

Exodus 36:21 Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.

Exodus 36:22 Each board had two hand holds for fitting together. He did this for all the boards of the tabernacle.

Exodus 36:23 The boards for the tabernacle he made this way: twenty boards for the south side.

Exodus 36:24 Also he made forty bases of silver under the twenty boards, two bases under one board for its two hand holds, and two bases under the next board for its two hand holds.

Exodus 36:25 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards

Exodus 36:26 and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one board and two bases under the next board.

Exodus 36:27 For the rear of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.

Exodus 36:28 He made two boards for corners of the tabernacle in the rear.

Exodus 36:29 And they were separate beneath but joined at the top, at the first ring. He made two of them this way for the two corners.

Exodus 36:30 There were eight boards with their bases of silver: sixteen bases, under every board two bases.

Exodus 36:31 He made bars of acacia wood, five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

Exodus 36:32 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle at the rear westward.

Exodus 36:33 And he made the middle bar run through it from end to end halfway up the boards.

Exodus 36:34 And he overlaid the boards with gold and made their rings of gold for houses for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

Exodus 36:35 He made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen; with cherubs skillfully worked into it he made it.

Exodus 36:36 And for it he made four pillars of acacia and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of gold, and he cast for them four bases of silver.

Exodus 36:37 He also made a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework,

Exodus 36:38 and its five pillars with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals, and their fillets were of gold, but their five bases were of bronze.

Exodus 36 quotes:

“The heart of these workers was full of wisdom. Wisdom is simply Christ (1 Cor. 1:30). To have wisdom is to have the ability to know and understand spiritual matters and to know how to carry out matters. Therefore, wisdom, strictly speaking, is Christ as the way. If you have Christ, you have the way to know matters, understand matters, and know how to do things. Christ is our way. We must have Christ and be filled with Christ.”

Lee, Witness. Spiritual Applications of the Tabernacle. Living Stream Ministry, 1987. p. 40.

“Moses literally stopped the offering. He told the people, ‘Stop giving! We have too much already. Even if we could receive more, we could never pos¬ sibly count it all or use it all.'”

Cameron, Barry L. Contagious Generosity : The Key to Continuous Blessing. HeartSpring Pub. Co., 2006. p. 136.

“Worship involves bringing a willing offering of our natural abilities, and when we have worked to polish and discipline them, God will put our talents to work for Him. He will also give us certain detailed instructions about where and how to use them. The details given in Exodus 36 were minute. It was absolutely clear where each talent needed to be used. Can you sew? Sew for Jesus. Can you landscape? Ask Him where, when, and how. What gift did you bring with you from Egypt to Canaan? Will you worship Jesus with it?”

Briscoe, Jill. Here Am I, Lord– Send Somebody Else: How God Uses Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things. W Pub. Group, 2004. p. 179.

Exodus 36 links:

curtains and a covering
strength and beauty
unified diversity

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Maranatha Daily Devotional – Thursday, March 28, 2019

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EXODUS in Jeff’s library

Exodus 35

Exodus 35:1 Moses collected all the congregation of the sons of Israel and said to them, “These are the words that reflect what Yahveh has commanded you to do.

Exodus 35:2 Work should be done for six days, but on the seventh day you should have a Sabbath of sacred rest, sacred to Yahveh. Whoever does any work on it should be put to death.

Exodus 35:3 You should kindle no fire in all your homes on the Sabbath day.”

Exodus 35:4 Moses told all the congregation of the people of Israel, “This reflects what Yahveh has commanded.

Exodus 35:5 Take from among yourselves a contribution to Yahveh. Whoever has an inclined heart, let him bring Yahveh’s contribution: gold, silver, and bronze;

Exodus 35:6 blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen; goats’ hair,

Exodus 35:7 tanned rams’ skins, and goatskins; acacia wood,

Exodus 35:8 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,

Exodus 35:9 and onyx stones and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the sacred pouch.

Exodus 35:10 “Let every skillful craftsman among you come and make all that Yahveh has commanded:

Exodus 35:11 the tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its hooks and its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases;

Exodus 35:12 the ark with its poles, the atonement cover, and the veil of the screen;

Exodus 35:13 the table with its poles and all its utensils, and the face bread;

Exodus 35:14 the lampstand also for the light, with its utensils and its lamps, and the oil for the light;

Exodus 35:15 and the altar of incense, with its poles, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle;

Exodus 35:16 the altar of ascending offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils, the basin and its stand;

Exodus 35:17 the drapes of the court, its pillars and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court;

Exodus 35:18 the pegs of the tabernacle and the pegs of the court, and their cords;

Exodus 35:19 the finely worked garments for serving in the Sacred Place, the sacred garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, for their service as priests.”

Exodus 35:20 Then all the congregation of the sons of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.

Exodus 35:21 And they came, everyone whose heart stirred him, and everyone whose breath moved him, bringing Yahveh’s contribution to be used for the conference tent, and for all its service, and for the sacred garments.

Exodus 35:22 So they came, both men and women. All who had an inclined heart brought brooches and earrings and signet rings and armlets, all kinds of gold objects, every man dedicating an offering of gold to Yahveh.

Exodus 35:23 And everyone who possessed blue or purple or scarlet yarns or fine linen or goats’ hair or tanned rams’ skins or goatskins brought them.

Exodus 35:24 Everyone who could contribute silver or bronze brought it as Yahveh’s contribution. And everyone who possessed acacia wood of any use in the work brought it.

Exodus 35:25 And every skillful woman spun with her hands, and they all brought what they had spun in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen.

Exodus 35:26 All the women whose hearts stirred them to use their skill spun the goats’ hair.

Exodus 35:27 And the leaders brought onyx stones and other stones to be set, for the ephod and for the sacred pouch,

Exodus 35:28 and spices and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense.

Exodus 35:29 All the men and women, the sons of Israel, whose heart moved them to bring anything for the work that Yahveh had commanded by Moses to be done brought it as a freewill offering to Yahveh.

Exodus 35:30 Then Moses told the people of Israel, “Look, Yahveh has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;

Exodus 35:31 and he has filled him with the Breath of God, with skill, with understanding, with knowledge, and with all kinds of work,

Exodus 35:32 to plan with precision, to work in gold and silver and bronze,

Exodus 35:33 in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, for work in every skilled craft.

Exodus 35:34 And he has put it in his heart to teach, also Oholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan.

Exodus 35:35 He has filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, or by a weaver – by any sort of workman or skilled designer.

Exodus 35 quotes:

“Exodus 35 speaks of the different materials offered by the people of God for the building of the tabernacle. All these materials offered -by the people of Israel represent the things of Christ which were experienced by the people of God. They experienced these items, so they possessed them. What they offered were the things which they possessed, earned, and had in their hands. The things experienced and possessed by them they now brought to offer to Ged to be the material for the building.”

Lee, Witness. Spiritual Applications of the Tabernacle. Living Stream Ministry, 1987. p. 21.

“A study of Exodus 35 and 36 reveals that the word “‘heart’’ or ‘‘hearted” is used at least 12 times. The people gave these offerings freely as a heart response to the goodness of the Lord (Exodus 36:3).It is the condition of the heart which counts before the Lord (Psalms 51:10,I2, 17 and Mark 7:6).”

Conner, Kevin J. The Tabernacle of Moses. Bible Temple Pub., 1975. p. 10.

“Exodus 35 stresses to begin with that “this is what the Lord has commanded”, the offering is “for the Lord.” The Lord never asks without reason or foundation. This is the Savior-God who is commanding this, the Lord who has revealed himself in all his grace and mercy, the Lord who has made an everlasting covenant with his people, the Lord who knows that a grateful people will want to show their gratitude to him for his blessings, yes, who need this expression of thanks in order to express their fellowship with him. The Lord doesn’t want our gifts because he needs us. We need him, and we need to express this in our life and in our worship.”

Wendland, Ernst H. Exodus. Northwestern Pub. House, 1984. p. 259.

Exodus 35 links:

everyone who could
Exodus- “to the LORD”
Exodus- more than enough
introducing the breath of God
much more than enough
responding to elaborate grace
sacred rest

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Maranatha Daily Devotional – Thursday, March 30, 2023
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Tuesday, March 30, 2021

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EXODUS in Jeff’s library

Exodus 34

Exodus 34:1 Yahveh told Moses, “Cut yourself two stone tablets like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

Exodus 34:2 Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and station yourself there for me on the top of the mountain.

Exodus 34:3 No one should come up with you and let no one be seen anywhere on the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze opposite that mountain.”

Exodus 34:4 So Moses cut two stone tablets like the first. And he got up early in the morning and climbed Mount Sinai, as Yahveh had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets.

Exodus 34:5 Yahveh descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the name: Yahveh.

Exodus 34:6 Yahveh passed before him and proclaimed, “Yahveh, Yahveh, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in covenant faithfulness and reliability,

Exodus 34:7 keeping covenant faithfulness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

Exodus 34:8 And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the ground and worshiped.

Exodus 34:9 And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let Yahveh walk among us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

Exodus 34:10 And he said, “Notice, I am making a covenant. In front of all your people I will do miracles, such as have not been done in all the land or in any nation. And all the people among whom you reside will see the work of Yahveh, because it is a terrifying thing that I will do with you.

Exodus 34:11 “Observe what I command you this day. Notice, I will remove from you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Exodus 34:12 Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you are going, or else it will become a trap among you.

Exodus 34:13 You should tear down their altars and break their sacred pillars and cut down their Asherim

Exodus 34:14 (because you should worship no other god, because Yahveh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),

Exodus 34:15 or else you would make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they lust after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice,

Exodus 34:16 and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters lust after their gods and make your sons lust after their gods.

Exodus 34:17 “You should not make for yourself any gods out of cast metal.

Exodus 34:18 “You should keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you should eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib, because in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.

Exodus 34:19 All that open the womb are mine, all your male livestock, the firstborn of cow and sheep.

Exodus 34:20 The firstborn of a donkey you should redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it, you should break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you should redeem. And none should appear before me empty-handed.

Exodus 34:21 “Six days you should work, but on the seventh day you should rest. In plowing time and in harvest you should rest.

Exodus 34:22 You should observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end.

Exodus 34:23 Three times in the year should all your males appear before Yahveh God, the God of Israel.

Exodus 34:24 Because I will remove nations from around you and enlarge your borders; so, no one will crave your land, when you go up to appear before Yahveh your God three times in the year.

Exodus 34:25 “You should not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened or let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning.

Exodus 34:26 You should bring the first of the first pickings from your soil into the house of Yahveh your God. You should not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

Exodus 34:27 And Yahveh told Moses, “Rewrite these words, because these words show that I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

Exodus 34:28 So he was there with Yahveh forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Words.

Exodus 34:29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the reminder in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.

Exodus 34:30 Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, and noticed the skin of his face shining, and they were afraid to come near him.

Exodus 34:31 But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke with them.

Exodus 34:32 Afterward all the people of Israel came near, and he commanded them everything that Yahveh had told him in Mount Sinai.

Exodus 34:33 And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.

Exodus 34:34 Whenever Moses went in before Yahveh to speak with him, he would remove the veil, until he came out. And when he came out and told the people of Israel what he was commanded,

Exodus 34:35 the people of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face was shining. And Moses would put the veil over his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

Exodus 34 quotes:

“Nowhere is the good news of God’s saving grace more evident than in the relationship between Exodus 32, with its sordid tale of the golden calf, and Exodus 34, the narrative of Yahweh’s gracious restoration of the covenant with the chosen people.”

Newsome, James D. Exodus. 1st ed, Geneva Press, 1998. p. 111.

“Exodus 34 provides for Israel’s restitution and future with the Lord. The self-revelation of God occurs in a new way in time and history.”

Bruckner, James K. Exodus. Hendrickson Publishers ; Paternoster, 2008. p. 280.

“In Exodus 34:29 we read that the face of Moses “was radiant because he had spoken with the Lord.” The Hebrew word for “radiant” is derived from the same word in Hebrew which means “horn.” When the church father Jerome translated the Bible into the Latin Language, he conveyed the idea that as Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of stone, his head appeared as though horns were projecting from it. Michelangelo’s statue of Moses therefore portrays Moses’ head with horns instead of rays of light.

Wendland, Ernst H. Exodus. Northwestern Pub. House, 1984. p. 253-254.

Exodus 34 links:

Exodus- the LORD whose name is Jealous
GETTING RID OF FOREIGN GODS – jeffersonvann
God’s mercy and the death-state
intently gazing on the glory
JONAH’S ANGRY PRAYER – jeffersonvann
renewal plea
retrying the covenant

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Maranatha Daily Devotional – Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Wednesday, March 29, 2023

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EXODUS in Jeff’s library

Exodus 33

Exodus 33:1 Yahveh told Moses, “Go on up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land about which I promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give it.’

Exodus 33:2 I will send an agent in front of you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Exodus 33:3 Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, or else I would consume you on the way, because you are a stiff-necked people.”

Exodus 33:4 When the people heard this discouraging word, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments.

Exodus 33:5 Because Yahveh had told Moses, “Say to the people of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now take off your ornaments, so that I may know what to do with you.'”

Exodus 33:6 Therefore the people of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.

Exodus 33:7 That was when Moses had taken the tent and pitched it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he had called it the conference tent. And everyone who wanted to request something from Yahveh would go out to the conference tent, which was outside the camp.

Exodus 33:8 Whenever Moses had gone out to the tent, all the people would rise up, and each would stand at his tent door, and watch Moses until he had gone into the tent.

Exodus 33:9 When Moses had entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and Yahveh would speak with Moses.

Exodus 33:10 And when all the people had seen the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, each at their tent door.

Exodus 33:11 And Yahveh had spoken to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not leave the tent.

Exodus 33:12 Moses told Yahveh, “See, you told me, ‘Bring up these people,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in my sight.’

Exodus 33:13 Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now how you do things, so that I may know you in order to find grace in your sight. Consider that this nation is also your people.”

Exodus 33:14 And he said, “My face will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

Exodus 33:15 And he said to him, “If your face will not go with me, do not bring us up from here.

Exodus 33:16 For how should it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not in your going with us, so that we are different, I and your people, from every other people on the face of the land?”

Exodus 33:17 And Yahveh said to Moses, “This very thing that you have spoken I will do, because you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”

Exodus 33:18 Moses said, “Please show me your glory.”

Exodus 33:19 And he said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘Yahveh.’ And I will show grace to whom I will show grace and will show mercy to whom I will show mercy.

Exodus 33:20 But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, because a man should not see me and live.”

Exodus 33:21 And Yahveh said, “Notice, there is a place by me where you should stand on the rock,

Exodus 33:22 and while my glory passes by, I will put you in a crevice of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by.

Exodus 33:23 Then I will take away my hand, and you should see my back, but my face should not be seen.”

Exodus 33 quotes:

“Moses did not experience the full dosage of God’s Glory. If He had—there is no question about it— Moses would have died on the spot (see Exodus 33:20). God could only reveal to Moses a diluted or lesser degree of Glory. But even so, it was a greater manifestation of Glory than Moses had experienced up to that moment—even though he had been living in the fire for well over forty days.”

Sorge, Bob. Glory : When Heaven Invades Earth. Oasis House, 2000. p. 56.

“There must be a good reason why Joshua and Caleb stayed strong in faith when the crowd chose to act in doubt and unbelief Then the Lord prompted me to read Exodus 33 and I saw what that reason was. I saw that while Moses prayed in the tent of meeting, Joshua stayed right there with him.”

Hammond, Lynne. Renewed in His Presence : Satisfying Your Hunger for God. Harrison House, 2001. p. 63.

Exodus 33 links:

a prayer to be different
Exodus- the presence makes the difference
reverent fellowship
this discouraging word
wanting more

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EXODUS in Jeff’s library

Exodus 32

Exodus 32:1 After the people saw that Moses was overdue coming down from the mountain, the people collected[1] together to Aaron and said to him, “Stand up, make us gods who will go before us. We do not know what has become of this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, of him.”

Exodus 32:2 So Aaron said to them, “Take off the gold rings that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”

Exodus 32:3 So all the people took off the gold rings that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.

Exodus 32:4 And he took the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden calf. And they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

Exodus 32:5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made proclamation and said, “Tomorrow should be a feast to Yahveh.”

Exodus 32:6 And they rose up early the next day and offered ascending offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.

Exodus 32:7 And Yahveh said to Moses, “Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have ruined themselves.

Exodus 32:8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!'”

Exodus 32:9 And Yahveh said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and notice, it is a stiff-necked people.

Exodus 32:10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you.”

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

Exodus 32:12 Why should the Egyptians say, He brought them out with a wrong motive, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the land? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people.

Exodus 32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your slaves, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they should inherit it permanently.'”

Exodus 32:14 And Yahveh relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people.

Exodus 32:15 Moses then turned and went down from the mountain and the two tablets of the reminder were in his hand, tablets that were written on both sides; on the front and on the back, they were written.

Exodus 32:16 The tablets fashioned by God, and the writing was the writing of God, he had engraved the tablets.

Exodus 32:17 When Joshua had heard the noise of the people as they were shouting, he said to Moses, “There is a noise of war in the camp.”

Exodus 32:18 But he said, “It is not the sound of shouting for victory, or the sound of the cry of defeat, but the sound of singing that I hear.”

Exodus 32:19 And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses’ anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets from his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.

Exodus 32:20 He took the calf that they had made and had it burned with fire and ground it to powder and scattered on the water and made the people of Israel drink it.

Exodus 32:21 And Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought such a great failure[2] upon them?”

Exodus 32:22 And Aaron said, “Let not the anger of my lord burn hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

Exodus 32:23 Because they said to me, ‘Make us gods who should go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’

Exodus 32:24 So I said to them, ‘Let any who have gold take it off.’ So, they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.”

Exodus 32:25 And when Moses saw that the people had lost control of themselves (for Aaron had let them lose control, so that those standing with them gossiped),

Exodus 32:26 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, “Who belongs to Yahveh? Come to me.” And all the sons of Levi gathered around him.

Exodus 32:27 And he said to them, “This is what Yahveh God of Israel says: ‘Put your sword on your side each of you and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each of you kill his brother and his friend and his neighbor.'”

Exodus 32:28 And the sons of Levi did what Moses said. And among the people that day about three thousand men were killed.

Exodus 32:29 And Moses said, “Today you have shown yourselves committed to the service of Yahveh, each one at the cost of his son and of his brother, so that he might bestow a blessing upon you this day.”

Exodus 32:30 The next day Moses said to the people, “You have failed a great sin. So now I will go up to Yahveh; perhaps I can make atonement for your failure.”

Exodus 32:31 So Moses returned to Yahveh and said, “Now, this people have failed a great failure. They have made for themselves gods of gold.

Exodus 32:32 But now, if you will forgive their sin – but if not, please blot me out of your book that you have written.”

Exodus 32:33 But Yahveh said to Moses, “I will blot out of my book the one who has failed me.

Exodus 32:34 But now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you; notice, my agent will go before you. But on the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.”

Exodus 32:35 Then Yahveh sent a plague on the people, because they made the calf, the one that Aaron made.

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[1] קָהַל = collect. Exodus 32:1; 35:1.

[2] חֲטָאָה = failure. Exodus 32:21, 30, 31.

Exodus 32 quotes

“The reality that divine grace does not come easily or cheaply is quite dramatically illustrated by Yahweh’s reaction to the people’s sin in 32:10: Yahweh’s initial impulse is to obliterate these treacherous people entirely. But Yahweh’s words also reveal a struggle within to suppress a gentler nature. God commands Moses to leave so that the divine wrath will not be impeded. But Moses coaxes Yahweh to do that which Yahweh really wants to do—forgive the people”

Newsome, James D. Exodus. First edition, Westminster John Knox Press, 1998. p, 109.

“The narrator tells us that, in response to Moses, “the LORD changed his mind © about the terrible things he said he would do to his people” (Exodus 32:14). There is no question that punishment was justified. It would not have © been unfair to hold the people accountable. But the simple statement that © “the LorD changed his mind” is most remarkable—and for some people, © most difficult to accept.”

March, W. Eugene. Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers. Abingdon Press, 2012. p. 41.

“There is little wonder that the story of the golden calf has loomed large in the consciousness of many men and women of faith. Ezekiel 20:8, Acts 7:40—42 (Ex. 32:1 is quoted almost verbatim in 7:40), and 1 Corinthians 10:7 (which quotes Ex. 32:6) are all texts that recall this terrible moment of Israel’s sinfulness. In each case (although from different perspectives), the later passages cite the golden calf incident as an example of how God’s people are not to live or act. “

Newsome, James D. Exodus. 1st ed, Geneva Press, 1998. p. 108.

Exodus 32 links:

Exodus- glory upstaged
passionately wrong
perhaps I can make atonement
The sky above – shamayim, the land beneath – erets
The sky God is supreme
these are your gods

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Maranatha Daily Devotional – Thursday, August 31, 2017
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Wednesday, August 30, 2017

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