Exodus 32

ECB(i) 1
THE MOLTEN CALF
And the people see that Mosheh delays descending from the mount: and the people congregate to Aharon and say to him, Rise, work us elohim to go at our face; for as for this Mosheh, the man who ascended us from the land of Misrayim, we know not what became of him. 2 And Aharon says to them, Break off the golden noserings in the ears of your women and your sons and your daughters and bring them to me. 3 And all the people break off the golden noserings in their ears and bring them to Aharon: 4 and he takes them from their hand and with a stylus forms and works a molten calf thereof: and they say, These are your elohim, O Yisra El, who ascended you from the land of Misrayim. 5 And Aharon sees, and builds a sacrifice altar at the face thereof: and Aharon calls and says, Tomorrow is a celebration to Yah Veh. 6 And they start early on the morrow and holocaust holocausts and bring shelamim: and the people sit down to eat and to drink and rise to entertain. 7 And Yah Veh words to Mosheh, Go! Descend! For your people whom you ascended from the land of Misrayim ruin themselves: 8 they suddenly turn aside from the way I misvahed them: they work themselves a molten calf and prostrate to it and sacrifice thereto, and say, These are your elohim, O Yisra El, who ascended you from the land of Misrayim. 9 And Yah Veh says to Mosheh, I see this people, and behold, it is a hard necked people: 10 and now, leave me, and I kindle my wrath against them and I finish them off: and I work of you a great goyim. 11
YAH VEH REVEALS HIS GLORY
And Mosheh strokes the face of Yah Veh his Elohim and says, O Yah Veh, why kindle your wrath against your people whom you brought from the land of Misrayim with great force and with a strong hand? 12 Why have the Misrayim say, saying, For evil he brought them out - to slaughter them in the mountains and to finish them off from the face of the soil? Turn from your fuming wrath and sigh of this evil against your people: 13 remember your servants, Abraham, Yischaq and Yisra El, to whom you oathed by your own self and worded to them, I abound your seed as the stars of the heavens and all this land that I said I give to your seed: and they inherit it eternally. 14 - and Yah Veh sighs of the evil he worded to work to his people. 15 And Mosheh turns his face and descends from the mount with the two slabs of the witness in his hand: the slabs are inscribed on both their sides; on the one side and on the other are they inscribed: 16 and the slabs are the work of Elohim and the inscribing is the inscibing of Elohim, engraved on the slabs. 17 And when Yah Shua hears the voice of the people as they shout, he says to Mosheh, A voice of war in the camp. 18 And he says, It is neither the voice of them who answer of might, nor is it the voice of them who answer of vanquish: but it is the voice of the humble I hear. 19 And so be it, as soon as he approaches the camp, he sees the calf and the round dancing: and Mosheh kindles his wrath and he casts the slabs from his hands and breaks them beneath the mount: 20 and he takes the calf they worked and burns it in the fire and pulverizes it and winnows it on the face of the water; and makes the sons of Yisra El drink thereof. 21 And Mosheh says to Aharon, What work this people to you, that you bring so great a sin on them? 22 And Aharon says, Kindle not your wrath, my adoni: you know the people are set on evil. 23 And they say to me, Work us elohim to go at our face: for as for this Mosheh, the man who ascended us from the land of Misrayim, we know not what became of him. 24 And I say to them, Whoever has any gold, break it off. - and they give me: and I cast it into the fire and out comes this calf. 25 And Mosheh sees that the people are exposed - for Aharon exposed them to whisperings among their uprisers: 26 and Mosheh stands in the portal of the camp and says, Who is on the side of Yah Veh? Come to me. - and all the sons of Levi gather to him. 27 And he says to them, Thus says Yah Veh Elohim of Yisra El: Every man put his sword by his flank and pass in and turn from portal to portal throughout the camp and slaughter every man his brother and every man his companion and every man his near friend. 28 And the sons of Levi work according to the word of Mosheh: and there fall of the people that day about three thousand men. 29 And Mosheh says, Fill your hands today to Yah Veh, because man is against his son and against his brother; that he give you a blessing this day. 30 And so be it, on the morrow, Mosheh says to the people, You sinned a great sin: and now I ascend to Yah Veh; perhaps I kapar/atone for your sin. 31 And Mosheh returns to Yah Veh, and says, Oh I beseech, this people sinned a great sin and worked elohim of gold. 32 Yet now, if you bear their sin -; and if not, wipe me, I beseech you, from the scroll you inscribed. 33 And Yah Veh says to Mosheh, Whoever sins against me, I wipe from my scroll: 34 and now, go, lead the people to the place I worded to you: behold, my Angel goes at your face: in the day I visit, I visit their sin on them. 35 - and Yah Veh smites the people because they worked the calf which Aharon worked.