Liber Exodus

Exodus, chapter 32, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 32 Vulgate

   1 Videns autem populus quod moram faceret descendendi de monte Moyses, congregatus ad Aaron dixit: "Surge, fac nobis deos, qui nos praecedant; Moysi enim, huic viro, qui nos eduxit de terra Aegypti, ignoramus quid acciderit"
   2 Dixitque ad eos Aaron: "Tollite inaures aureas de uxorum filiorumque et filiarum vestrarum auribus et afferte ad me"
   3 Fecitque omnis populus, quae iusserat, deferens inaures ad Aaron.
   4 Quas cum ille accepisset, formavit stilo imaginem et fecit ex eis vitulum conflatilem. Dixeruntque: "Hi sunt dii tui, Israel, qui te eduxerunt de terra Aegypti!"
   5 Quod cum vidisset Aaron, aedificavit altare coram eo et praeconis voce clamavit dicens: "Cras sollemnitas Domini est"
   6 Surgen tesque mane altero die obtulerunt holocausta et hostias pacificas; et sedit populus manducare et bibere et surrexerunt ludere.
   7 Locutus est autem Dominus ad Moysen: "Vade, descende; peccavit populus tuus, quem eduxisti de terra Aegypti.
   8 Recesserunt cito de via, quam praecepi eis, feceruntque sibi vitulum conflatilem et adoraverunt atque immolantes ei hostias dixerunt: "Isti sunt dii tui, Israel, qui te eduxerunt de terra Aegypti!" "
   9 Rursumque ait Dominus ad Moysen: "Cerno quod populus iste durae cervicis sit;
   10 dimitte me, ut irascatur furor meus contra eos et deleam eos faciamque te in gentem magnam"
   11 Moyses autem orabat Dominum Deum suum dicens: "Cur, Domine, irascitur furor tuus contra populum tuum, quem eduxisti de terra Aegypti in fortitudine magna et in manu robusta?
   12 Ne, quaeso, dicant Aegyptii: "Callide eduxit eos, ut interficeret in montibus et deleret e terra". Quiescat ira tua, et esto placabilis super nequitia populi tui.
   13 Recordare Abraham, Isaac et Israel servorum tuorum, quibus iurasti per temetipsum dicens: "Multiplicabo semen vestrum sicut stellas caeli; et universam terram hanc, de qua locutus sum, dabo semini vestro, et possidebitis eam semper" "
   14 Placatusque est Dominus, ne faceret malum, quod locutus fuerat adversus populum suum.
   15 Et reversus est Moyses de monte portans duas tabulas testimonii in manu sua scriptas ex utraque parte
   16 et factas opere Dei; scriptura quoque Dei erat sculpta in tabulis.
   17 Audiens autem Iosue tumultum populi vociferantis dixit ad Moysen: "Ululatus pugnae auditur in castris"
   18 Qui respondit: "Non est clamor vincentium neque clamor fugientium, sed clamorem cantantium ego audio"
   19 Cumque appropinquasset ad castra, vidit vitulum et choros; iratusque valde proiecit de manu tabulas et confregit eas ad radices montis.
   20 Arripiensque vitulum, quem fecerant, combussit et contrivit usque ad pulverem, quem sparsit in aquam et dedit ex eo potum filiis Israel.
   21 Dixitque ad Aaron: "Quid tibi fecit hic populus, ut induceres super eum peccatum maximum?"
   22 Cui ille respondit: "Ne indignetur dominus meus; tu enim nosti populum istum, quod pronus sit ad malum.
   23 Dixerunt mihi: "Fac nobis deos, qui nos praecedant; huic enim Moysi, qui nos eduxit de terra Aegypti, nescimus quid acciderit".
   24 Quibus ego dixi: Quis vestrum habet aurum? Abstulerunt et dederunt mihi, et proieci illud in ignem; egressusque est hic vitulus"
   25 Vidit ergo Moyses populum quod esset effrenatus; relaxaverat enim ei Aaron frenum in ludibrium hostium eorum.
   26 Et stans in porta castrorum ait: "Si quis est Domini, iungatur mihi!" Congregatique sunt ad eum omnes filii Levi.
   27 Quibus ait: "Haec dicit Dominus, Deus Israel: Ponat unusquisque gladium super femur suum. Ite et redite de porta usque ad portam per medium castrorum, et occidat unusquisque fratrem et amicum et proximum suum"
   28 Fecerunt filii Levi iuxta sermonem Moysi; cecideruntque de populo in die illa quasi tria milia hominum.
   29 Et ait Moyses: "Implestis manus vestras hodie Domino unusquisque in filio et in fratre suo, ut detur vobis benedictio"
   30 Facto autem altero die, locutus est Moyses ad populum: "Peccastis peccatum maximum; ascendam ad Dominum, si quo modo quivero eum deprecari pro scelere vestro"
   31 Reversusque ad Dominum ait: "Obsecro, peccavit populus iste peccatum maximum, feceruntque sibi deos aureos; aut dimitte eis hanc noxam
   32 aut, si non facis, dele me de libro tuo, quem scripsisti"
   33 Cui respondit Dominus: "Qui peccaverit mihi, delebo eum de libro meo.
   34 Tu autem vade et duc populum istum, quo locutus sum tibi: angelus meus praecedet te; ego autem in die ultionis visitabo et hoc peccatum eorum"
   35 Percussit ergo Dominus populum pro reatu vituli, quem fecerat Aaron.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
   2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
   3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
   4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
   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.
   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.
   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:
   8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
   9 And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
   10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
   11 And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
   12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
   13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
   14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
   15 ¶ And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
   16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
   17 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.
   18 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.
   19 ¶ 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.
   20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
   21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
   22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.
   23 For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
   24 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.
   25 ¶ And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)
   26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.
   27 And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
   28 And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
   29 For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the LORD, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.
   30 ¶ And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.
   31 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
   32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
   33 And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
   34 Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.
   35 And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.