Exodus 32 · Verse 6

Exodus 32:6

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.
Exodus 32:6, King James Version

Exodus 32:6 in other translations

BSBSo the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.
WEBThey rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
ASVAnd 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.
YLTand they rise early on the morrow, and cause burnt-offerings to ascend, and bring nigh peace-offerings; and the people sit down to eat and to drink, and rise up to play.
DARBYAnd they rose up early on the morrow, and offered up burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to sport.
BBESo early on the day after they got up and made burned offerings and peace-offerings; and took their seats at the feast, and then gave themselves to pleasure.
WebsterAnd they rose 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.

What does Exodus 32:6 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 32:5-6

5-6. Aaron made proclamation, and said, To-morrow is a feast to the Lord--a remarkable circumstance, strongly confirmatory of the view that they had not renounced the worship of Jehovah, but in accordance with Egyptian notions, had formed an image with which they had been familiar, to be the visible symbol of the divine presence. But there seems to have been much of the revelry that marked the feasts of the heathen.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 6 The people sat down to eat and to drink - The burnt-offerings were wholly consumed; the peace-offerings, when the blood bad been poured out, became the food of the priests, etc. When therefore the strictly religious part of these ceremonies was finished, the people sat down to eat of the peace-offerings, and this they did merely as the idolaters, eating and drinking to excess. And it appears they went much farther, for it is said they rose up to play, לצחק letsachek, a word of ominous import, which seems to imply here fornicating and adulterous intercourse; and in some countries the verb to play is still used precisely in this sense. In this sense the original is evidently used, Gen 39:14.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 32:1-6

While Moses was in the mount, receiving the law from God, the people made a tumultuous address to Aaron. This giddy multitude were weary of waiting for the return of Moses. Weariness in waiting betrays to many temptations. The Lord must be waited for till he comes, and waited for though he tarry. Let their readiness to part with their ear-rings to make an idol, shame our niggardliness in the service of the true God…

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Exodus 32:6 in the original Hebrew

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וַיַּשְׁכִּ֙ימוּ֙vai.yash.Ki.muand they rose earlyH7925
מִֽמָּחֳרָ֔תmi.mo.cho.Ratfrom [the] next dayH4283
וַיַּעֲל֣וּvai.ya.'a.Luand they offered upH5927
עֹלֹ֔ת'o.Lotburnt offeringsH5930
וַיַּגִּ֖שׁוּvai.ya.Gi.shuand they brought nearH5066
שְׁלָמִ֑יםshe.la.Mimpeace offeringsH8002
וַיֵּ֤שֶׁבvai.Ye.shevand it sat downH3427
הָעָם֙ha.'Amthe peopleH5971
לֶֽאֱכֹ֣לle.'e.Kholto eatH398
וְשָׁת֔וֹve.sha.Toand to drinkH8354
וַיָּקֻ֖מוּvai.ya.Ku.muand they aroseH6965
לְצַחֵֽק\׃\ \פle.tza.Chekto playH6711

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Cross references for Exodus 32:6

  • 1 Corinthians 10:7

    Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

  • Numbers 25:2

    And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.

  • Acts 7:41-42

    And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

  • Exodus 32:17-19

    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. And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear. 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.

  • Amos 8:10

    And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

  • Amos 2:8

    And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.

  • Revelation 11:10

    And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

  • Exodus 24:4-5

    And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the Lord.

  • Judges 16:23-25

    Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand. And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us. And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
offered.
24:4,5
sat down.No doubt at this feast they sacrificed after the manner of the Egyptians.
Nu 25:2; Jud 16:23-25; Am 2:8; 8:10; Ac 7:41,42; 1Co 10:7; Re 11:10

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Context

  • Exodus 32:5

    And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the Lord.

  • Exodus 32:6

    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.

  • Exodus 32:7

    And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:

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Exodus 32:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y el día siguiente madrugaron, y ofrecieron holocaustos, y presentaron pacíficos: y sentóse el pueblo á comer y á beber, y levantáronse á regocijarse.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et le lendemain, ils se levèrent de bonne heure, et offrirent des holocaustes, et amenèrent des sacrifices de prospérités. Et le peuple s’assit pour manger et pour boire, et ils se levèrent pour se divertir.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und sie standen des folgenden Tages früh auf und opferten Brandopfer und brachten Friedensopfer; und das Volk setzte sich nieder, um zu essen und zu trinken, und sie standen auf, um sich zu belustigen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Surgentesque mane, obtulerunt holocausta, et hostias pacificas, et sedit populus manducare, et bibere, et surrexerunt ludere.