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Exodus · read by Anthony Mathenia
47 verses, in order. Only the verses Anthony read aloud are shown.
Exodus 20
Exodus 32
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Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, "Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!"Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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So Aaron told them, "Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me."Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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Then all the people took off their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron.Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, "These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!"Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before the calf and proclaimed: "Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD."Read from ESV · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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So 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.Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, 'These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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The LORD also said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation."Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God, saying, "O LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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Why should the Egyptians declare, 'He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth'? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people.Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, 'I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.'"Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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When Joshua heard the sound of the people shouting, he said to Moses, "The sound of war is in the camp."Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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But Moses replied: "It is neither the cry of victory nor the cry of defeat; I hear the sound of singing!"Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain.Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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"What did this people do to you," Moses asked Aaron, "that you have led them into so great a sin?"Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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"Do not be enraged, my lord," Aaron replied. "You yourself know that the people are intent on evil.Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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They told me, 'Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!'Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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So I said to them, 'Whoever has gold, let him take it off,' and they gave it to me. And when I threw it into the fire, out came this calf!"Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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Moses saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them run wild and become a laughingstock to their enemies.Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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So Moses stood at the entrance to the camp and said, "Whoever is for the LORD, come to me." And all the Levites gathered around him.Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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He told them, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Each of you men is to fasten his sword to his side, go back and forth through the camp from gate to gate, and slay his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.'"Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people fell dead.Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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Afterward, Moses said, "Today you have been ordained for service to the LORD, since each man went against his son and his brother; so the LORD has bestowed a blessing on you this day."Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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The 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."Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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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.Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written."Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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The LORD replied to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book.Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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Now go, lead the people to the place I described. Behold, My angel shall go before you. But on the day I settle accounts, I will punish them for their sin."Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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And the LORD sent a plague on the people because of what they had done with the calf that Aaron had made.Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
Exodus 33
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Then the LORD said to Moses, "Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of the land of Egypt, and go to the land that I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, 'I will give it to your descendants.'Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way."Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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When the people heard these bad tidings, they went into mourning, and no one put on any of his jewelry.Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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For the LORD had said to Moses, "Tell the Israelites, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I should go with you for a single moment, I would destroy you. Now take off your jewelry, and I will decide what to do with you.'"Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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So the Israelites stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it at a distance outside the camp. He called it the Tent of Meeting, and anyone inquiring of the LORD would go to the Tent of Meeting outside the camp.Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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Then, whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would stand at the entrances to their own tents and watch Moses until he entered the tent.Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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As Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and remain at the entrance, and the LORD would speak with Moses.Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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When all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance to the tent, they would stand up and worship, each one at the entrance to his own tent.Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God
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Thus the LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young assistant Joshua son of Nun would not leave the tent.Read from NASB1995 · Crushing Idols and Communing With God