Exodus 32:6-35

6And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And ^athe people sat down to eat and drink and rose up ^bto play.

7And the Lord said to Moses, ^c“Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have ^dcorrupted themselves. 8They have turned aside quickly out of the way that ^eI commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’” 9And the Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, ^fit is a stiff-necked people. 10Now therefore ^glet me alone, that ^hmy wrath may burn hot against them and ⁱI may consume them, in order that ^jI may make a great nation of you.”

11But ^kMoses implored the Lord his God and said, “O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12 ^lWhy should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger and ^mrelent from this disaster against your people. 13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you ⁿswore by your own self, and said to them, ^o‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’” 14And the Lord ^prelented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people.

15Then ^qMoses turned and went down from the mountain with the ^rtwo tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets that were written on both sides; on the front and on the back they were written. 16 ^sThe tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets. 17When ^tJoshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a noise of war in the camp.” 18But he said, “It is not the sound of ^ushouting for victory, or the sound of the cry of defeat, but the sound of singing that I hear.” 19And as soon as he came near the camp and ^vsaw the calf and the dancing, Moses’ anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain. 20He took the calf that they had made and burned it with fire and ground it to powder and scattered it on the water and made the people of Israel drink it.

21And Moses said to Aaron, ^w“What did this people do to you that you have brought such a great sin upon them?” 22And Aaron said, “Let not the anger of my lord burn hot. ^xYou know the people, that they are set on evil. 23For ^ythey said to me, ‘Make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’ 24So ^zI said to them, ‘Let any who have gold take it off.’ So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”

25And when Moses saw that the people had broken loose (for Aaron had let them break loose, ^aato the derision of their enemies), 26then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, “Who is on the Lord’s side? Come to me.” And all the sons of Levi gathered around him. 27And he said to them, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Put your sword on your side each of you, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each of you ^abkill his brother and his companion and his neighbor.’” 28And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And that day about three thousand men of the people fell. 29And Moses said, “Today you have been ^acordained for the service of the Lord, each one at the cost of his son and of his brother, so that he might bestow a blessing upon you this day.”

30The next day Moses said to the people, ^ad“You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to the Lord; ^aeperhaps I can make atonement for your sin.” 31So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Alas, ^afthis people has sinned a great sin. They have ^agmade for themselves gods of gold. 32But now, if ^ahyou will forgive their sin—but if not, please ^aiblot me out of ^ajyour book that you have written.” 33But the Lord said to Moses, ^ak“Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot out of my book. 34 ^alBut now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you; ^ambehold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.”

35Then the Lord sent a plague on the people, because they made the calf, the one that Aaron made.

Numbers 25:1-2

Baal Worship at Peor

1While Israel lived in ^anShittim, ^aothe people began to whore with the daughters of Moab. 2 ^apThese invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

Judges 2:12

12 ^aqAnd they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. ^arThey went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and ^asbowed down to them. ^atAnd they provoked the Lord to anger.

Judges 3:6

6 ^auAnd their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.

Judges 10:6

Further Disobedience and Oppression

6 ^avThe people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord ^awand served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, ^axthe gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they ^ayforsook the Lord and did not serve him.

Ezekiel 20:8

8 ^azBut they rebelled against me and were not willing to listen to me. ^baNone of them cast away the detestable things their eyes feasted on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt.

“Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them ^bband spend my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 23:3

3 ^bcThey played the whore in Egypt; ^bdthey played the whore ^bein their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms ▼

▼Hebrew nipples; also verses 8, 21

handled.

Ezekiel 23:8

8She did not give up her whoring ^bgthat she had begun in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their whoring lust upon her.

Ezekiel 23:11-21

11 ^bh“Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became ^bimore corrupt than her sister ▼

▼Hebrew  than she

in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister. 12She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, ^bkall of them desirable young men. 13And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way. 14But she carried her whoring further. She saw men ^blportrayed on the wall, the ^bmimages of ^bnthe Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion, 15wearing belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them having the appearance of officers, a likeness of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea. 16When she saw them, she lusted after them and ^bosent messengers to them ^bpin Chaldea. 17And the Babylonians came to her ^bqinto the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, ^brshe turned from them in disgust. 18When she carried on her whoring so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned in disgust from her sister. 19Yet she increased her whoring, ^bsremembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt 20and lusted after her lovers there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses. 21Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed ▼

▼Vulgate, Syriac; Hebrew  bosom for the sake of

your young breasts.”