Exodus 32:31
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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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“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.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And Moses returned unto Jehovah, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“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;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Exodus 32:31 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 20:4You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.
- Exodus 20:23You are not to make any gods alongside Me; you are not to make for yourselves gods of silver or gold.
- Exodus 32:30The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. Now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”
- Exodus 34:28So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
- Deuteronomy 9:18Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.
- Ezra 9:6and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.
- Ezra 9:15O LORD, God of Israel, You are righteous! For we remain this day as a remnant. Here we are before You in our guilt, though because of it no one can stand before You.”
- Nehemiah 9:33You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.
- Daniel 9:5we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.
- Daniel 9:8O LORD, we are covered with shame—our kings, our leaders, and our fathers—because we have sinned against You.
- Daniel 9:11All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, because we have sinned against You.
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