Exodus 32:31
And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
Exodus 32:31 in other translations
| BSB | So Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made gods of gold for themselves. |
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| WEB | Moses returned to the LORD, and said, “Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold. |
| ASV | And Moses returned unto Jehovah, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. |
| YLT | And Moses turneth back unto Jehovah, and saith, ‘Oh this people hath sinned a great sin, that they make to themselves a god of gold; |
| DARBY | And Moses returned to Jehovah, and said, Alas, this people has sinned a great sin, and they have made themselves agod of gold! |
| BBE | Then Moses went back to the Lord and said, This people has done a great sin, making themselves a god of gold; |
| Webster | And Moses returned to the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. |
What does Exodus 32:31 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 32:30-33
30-33. Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin--Moses labored to show the people the heinous nature of their sin, and to bring them to repentance. But not content with that, he hastened more earnestly to intercede for them.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 32:30-35
Moses calls it a great sin. The work of ministers is to show people the greatness of their sins. The great evil of sin appears in the price of pardon. Moses pleads with God for mercy; he came not to make excuses, but to make atonement. We are not to suppose that Moses means that he would be willing to perish for ever, for the people's sake. We are to love our neighbour as ourselves, and not more than ourselves. But…
Exodus 32:31 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Exodus 32:31
- Exodus 20:23
Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
- Daniel 9:11
Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
- Exodus 32:30
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the Lord; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.
- Daniel 9:8
O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
- Deuteronomy 9:18-19
And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger. For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the Lord was wroth against you to destroy you. But the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also.
- Ezra 9:15
O Lord God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.
- Nehemiah 9:33
Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:
- Daniel 9:5
We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
- Ezra 9:6-7
And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens. Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
- Exodus 34:28
And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
- Exodus 20:4
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
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- Exodus 32:30
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the Lord; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.
- Exodus 32:31
And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
- Exodus 32:32
Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
Exodus 32:31 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Entonces volvió Moisés á Jehová, y dijo: Ruégote, pues este pueblo ha cometido un gran pecado, porque se hicieron dioses de oro, |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et Moïse retourna vers l’ Éternel, et dit: Hélas! ce peuple a commis un grand péché, et ils se sont fait un dieu d’or. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und Mose kehrte zu Jehova zurück und sprach: Ach! dieses Volk hat eine große Sünde begangen, und sie haben sich einen Gott von Gold gemacht. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Reversusque ad Dominum, ait: Obsecro, peccavit populus iste peccatum maximum, feceruntque sibi deos aureos: aut dimitte eis hanc noxam, |