Keluaran 32:1

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

Ketika bangsa itu melihat, bahwa Musa mengundur-undurkan turun dari gunung itu, maka berkumpullah mereka mengerumuni Harun dan berkata kepadanya: "Mari, buatlah untuk kami allah, yang akan berjalan di depan kami sebab Musa ini, orang yang telah memimpin kami keluar dari tanah Mesir--kami tidak tahu apa yang telah terjadi dengan dia."

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Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Ketika bangsa itu melihat, bahwa Musa mengundur-undurkan turun dari gunung itu, maka berkumpullah mereka mengerumuni Harun dan berkata kepadanya: "Mari, buatlah untuk kami allah, yang akan berjalan di depan kami sebab Musa ini, orang yang telah memimpin kami keluar dari tanah Mesir--kami tidak tahu apa yang telah terjadi dengan dia."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Sebermula, maka apabila dilihat oleh orang banyak bahwa berlambatan juga Musa turun dari atas bukit itu, maka berkerumunlah mereka itu kepada Harun sambil katanya: Mari, perbuatkanlah kami berhala, yang berjalan di hadapan kami, karena adapun akan Musa, orang yang telah menghantarkan kami keluar dari negeri Mesir, tiada kami tahu apakah jadinya.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 2513, bc 1491, An, Ex, Is 1, Ab

delayed: Exodus 24:18, Deuteronomy 9:9, Matthew 24:43, 2 Peter 3:4

Up: Genesis 19:14, Genesis 44:4, Joshua 7:13

make: Exodus 20:3-5, Deuteronomy 4:15-18, Acts 7:40, Acts 17:29, Acts 19:26

which shall: Exodus 13:21, Exodus 33:3, Exodus 33:14, Exodus 33:15

the man: Exodus 32:7, Exodus 32:11, Exodus 14:11, Exodus 16:3, Hosea 12:13, Micah 6:4

we wot: Genesis 21:26, Genesis 39:8, Genesis 44:15, Matthew 24:48, 2 Peter 3:4

Reciprocal: Exodus 6:26 - Bring Exodus 16:6 - the Lord Exodus 20:4 - General Exodus 20:23 - General Exodus 23:2 - follow Exodus 24:14 - Tarry ye Exodus 32:4 - which brought Exodus 32:23 - General Deuteronomy 27:15 - maketh 1 Samuel 8:8 - General Nehemiah 13:6 - But Psalms 81:11 - would none Ezekiel 16:17 - hast also Ezekiel 20:16 - for their Acts 3:17 - wot Romans 11:2 - Wot Philippians 1:22 - I wot

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount,.... The time, according to the Targum of Jonathan, being elapsed, which he had fixed for his descent, and through a misreckoning, as Jarchi suggests; they taking the day of his going up to be one of the forty days, at the end of which he was to return, whereas he meant forty complete days; but it is not probable that Moses knew himself how long he should stay, and much less that he acquainted them before hand of it; but he staying longer than they supposed he would, they grew uneasy and impatient, and wanted to set out in their journey to Canaan, and to have some symbol and representation of deity to go before them:

the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron; who with Hur was left to judge them in the absence of Moses: it was very likely that they had had conferences with him before upon this head, but now they got together in a tumultuous manner, and determined to carry their point against all that he should say to the contrary:

and said unto him, up; put us off no longer, make no more delay, but arise at once, and set about what has been once and again advised to and importuned:

make us gods which shall go before us; not that they were so very stupid to think, that anything that could be made with hands was really God, or even could have life and breath, and the power of self-motion, or of walking before them; but that something should be made as a symbol and representation of the divine Being, carried before them; for as for the cloud which had hitherto gone before them, from their coming out of Egypt, that had not moved from its place for forty days or more, and seemed to them to be fixed on the mount, and would not depart from it; and therefore they wanted something in the room of it as a token of the divine Presence with them:

for [as for] this Moses; of whom they speak with great contempt, though he had been the deliverer of them, and had wrought so many miracles in their favour, and had been the instrument of so much good unto them:

the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt; this they own, but do not seem to be very thankful for it:

we wot not what is become of him; they could scarcely believe that he was alive, that it was possible to live so long a time without eating and drinking; or they supposed he was burnt on the mount of flaming fire from before the Lord, as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In all probability these three chapters originally formed a distinct composition. The main incidents recorded in them follow in the order of time, and are therefore in their proper place as regards historical sequence.

The golden calf - The people had, to a great extent, lost the patriarchal faith, and were but imperfectly instructed in the reality of a personal unseen God. Being disappointed at the long absence of Moses, they seem to have imagined that he had deluded them, and had probably been destroyed amidst the thunders of the mountain Exodus 24:15-18. Accordingly, they gave way to their superstitious fears and fell back upon that form of idolatry which was most familiar to them (see Exodus 32:4 note). The narrative of the circumstances is more briefly given by Moses at a later period in one of his addresses to the people Deuteronomy 9:8-21, Deuteronomy 9:25-29; Deuteronomy 10:1-5, Deuteronomy 10:8-11. It is worthy of remark, that Josephus, in his very characteristic chapter on the giving of the law, says nothing whatever of this act of apostacy, though he relates that Moses twice ascended the mountain.

Exodus 32:1

Unto Aaron - The chief authority during the absence of Moses was committed to Aaron and Hur Exodus 24:14.

Make us gods - The substantive אלהים 'elôhı̂ym is plural in form and may denote gods. But according to the Hebrew idiom, the meaning need not be plural, and hence, the word is used as the common designation of the true God (Genesis 1:1, etc. See Exodus 21:6 note). It here denotes a god, and should be so rendered.

Exodus 32:2

Break off the golden earrings - It has been very generally held from early times, that Aaron did not willingly lend himself to the mad design of the multitude; but that, overcome by their importunity, he asked them to give up such possessions as he knew they would not willingly part with, in the hope of putting a check on them. Assuming this to have been his purpose, he took a wrong measure of their fanaticism, for all the people made the sacrifice at once Exodus 32:3. His weakness, in any case, was unpardonable and called for the intercession of Moses Deuteronomy 9:20.

Exodus 32:4

The sense approved by most modern critics is: and he received the gold at their hand and collected it in a bag and made it a molten calf. The Israelites must have been familiar with the ox-worship of the Egyptians; perhaps many of them had witnessed the rites of Mnevis at Heliopolis, almost; on the borders of the land of Goshen, and they could not have been unacquainted with the more famous rites of Apis at Memphis. It is expressly said that they yielded to the idolatry of Egypt while they were in bondage Joshua 24:14; Ezekiel 20:8; Ezekiel 23:3, Ezekiel 23:8; and this is in keeping with the earliest Jewish tradition (Philo). In the next verse, Aaron appears to speak of the calf as if it was a representative of Yahweh - “Tomorrow is a feast to the Lord.” The Israelites did not, it should be noted, worship a living Mnevis, or Apis, having a proper name, but only the golden type of the animal. The mystical notions connected with the ox by the Egyptian priests may have possessed their minds, and, when expressed in this modified and less gross manner, may have been applied to the Lord, who had really delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians. Their sin then lay, not in their adopting another god, but in their pretending to worship a visible symbol of Him whom no symbol could represent. The close connection between the calves of Jeroboam and this calf is shown by the repetition of the formula, “which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt” 1 Kings 12:28.

These be thy gods - This is thy god. See Exodus 32:1 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXXII

The Israelites, finding that Moses delayed his return, desire

Aaron to make them gods to go before them, 1.

Aaron consents, and requires their ornaments, 2.

They deliver them to him, and he makes a molten calf, 3, 4.

He builds an altar before it, 5;

and the people offer burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, 6.

The Lord commands Moses to go down, telling him that the people

had corrupted themselves, 7, 8.

The Lord is angry, and threatens to destroy them, 9, 10.

Moses intercedes for them, 11-13;

and the Lord promises to spare them, 14.

Moses goes down with the tables in his hands, 15, 16.

Joshua, hearing the noise they made at their festival, makes

some remarks on it, 17, 18.

Moses, coming to the camp, and seeing their idolatrous worship,

is greatly distressed, throws down and breaks the two tables, 19.

Takes the calf, reduces it to powder, strews it upon the water,

and causes them to drink it, 20.

Moses expostulates with Aaron, 21.

Aaron vindicates himself, 22-24.

Moses orders the Levites to slay the transgressors, 25-27.

They do so, and 3000 fall, 28, 29.

Moses returns to the Lord on the mount, and makes supplication

for the people, 30-32.

God threatens and yet spares, 33.

Commands Moses to lead the people, and promises him the direction

of an angel, 34.

The people are plagued because of their sin, 35.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXXII

Verse Exodus 32:1. When the people saw that Moses delayed — How long this was before the expiration of the forty days, we cannot tell; but it certainly must have been some considerable time, as the ornaments must be collected, and the calf or ox, after having been founded, must require a considerable time to fashion it with the graving tool; and certainly not more than two or three persons could work on it at once. This work therefore, must have required several days.

The people gathered themselves together — They came in a tumultuous and seditious manner, insisting on having an object of religious worship made for them, as they intended under its direction to return to Egypt. See Acts 7:39-40.

As for this Moses, the man that brought us up — This seems to be the language of great contempt, and by it we may see tho truth of the character given them by Aaron, Exodus 32:22, they were set on mischief. It is likely they might have supposed that Moses had perished in the fire, which they saw had invested the top of the mountain into which he went.