Exodus 32:6

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.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
early	וַיַּשְׁכִּ֙ימוּ֙ vai.yash.Ki.mu	H7925	literally · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
morrow	מִֽמָּחֳרָ֔ת mi.mo.cho.Rat	H4283	the morrow or (adverbially) tomorrow · preposition + noun, common feminine singular absolute
offered	וַיַּעֲל֣וּ vai.ya.'a.Lu	H5927	to ascend · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
offerings	עֹלֹ֔ת 'o.Lot	H5930	a step or (collectively · noun, common feminine plural absolute
brought	וַיַּגִּ֖שׁוּ vai.ya.Gi.shu	H5066	to be or come (causatively · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
offerings	שְׁלָמִ֑ים she.la.Mim	H8002	properly · noun, common masculine plural absolute
people	הָעָם֙ ha.'Am	H5971	a people (as a congregated unit) · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
sat	וַיֵּ֤שֶׁב vai.Ye.shev	H3427	properly · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
eat	לֶֽאֱכֹ֣ל le.'e.Khol	H398	to eat (literally or figuratively) · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct
drink	וְשָׁת֔וֹ ve.sha.To	H8354	to imbibe (literally or figuratively) · conjunction + verb, qal infinitive absolute
up	וַיָּקֻ֖מוּ vai.ya.Ku.mu	H6965	to rise (in various applications · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
play	לְצַחֵֽק le.tza.Chek	H6711	to laugh outright (in merriment or scorn) · preposition + verb, piel infinitive construct

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Cross-references

1 Corinthians 10:7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
Numbers 25:2 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
Acts 7:41-42 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Exodus 32:17-19 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.
Exodus 24:4-5 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, accord…
Judges 16:23-25 Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said,…
Amos 2:8 And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
Amos 8:10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness u…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 32:1-6

While Moses was in the mount, receiving the law from God, the people had time to meditate upon what had been delivered, and prepare themselves for what was further to be revealed, and forty days was little enough for that work; but, instead of that, there were those among them that were contriving how to break the laws they had already received, and to anticipate those which they were in expectation of. On the thirty-ninth day of the forty, the plot broke out of rebellion against the Lord. Here is, I. A tumultuous address which the people made to Aaron, who was entrusted with the government in the absence of Moses: Up, make us gods, which shall go before us, Exo 32:1. 1. See the ill effect o…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 32:5

Aaron made proclamation, and said, To-morrow is a feast to the Lord--a remarkable circumstance, strongly confirmatory of the view that they had not renounced the worship of Jehovah, but in accordance with Egyptian notions, had formed an image with which they had been familiar, to be the visible symbol of the divine presence. But there seems to have been much of the revelry that marked the feasts of the heathen.

Adam Clarke on Exodus 32:6

The people sat down to eat and to drink - The burnt-offerings were wholly consumed; the peace-offerings, when the blood bad been poured out, became the food of the priests, etc. When therefore the strictly religious part of these ceremonies was finished, the people sat down to eat of the peace-offerings, and this they did merely as the idolaters, eating and drinking to excess. And it appears they went much farther, for it is said they rose up to play, לצחק letsachek, a word of ominous import, which seems to imply here fornicating and adulterous intercourse; and in some countries the verb to play is still used precisely in this sense. In this sense the original is evidently used, Gen 39:14.

John Gill on Exodus 32:6

And they rose up early in the morning,.... Being eager of, and intent upon their idol worship: and offered burnt offerings; upon the altar Aaron had made, where they were wholly consumed: and brought peace offerings: which were to make a feast to the Lord, and of which they partook: and the people sat down to eat and to drink; as at a feast: and rose up to play; to dance and sing, as was wont to be done by the Egyptians in the worship of their Apis or Ox; and Philo the Jew says (f), of the Israelites, that having made a golden ox, in imitation of the Egyptian Typho, he should have said Osiris, for Typho was hated by the Egyptians, being the enemy of Osiris; they sung and danced: the Targ…

The Church Fathers

Now this is the first lust which conquered the world, and because of it the first transgression of the law took place. It destroyed the people in the wilderness by penalties of all kinds; from the table of lust they rose up and worshipped a dead calf. Incited thereby they were ungrateful for all the acts of grace which had been shewn unto them.
— Philoxenus of Mabbug, 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 11 -- On Abstinence

And together with the testimony of the Word we may also see from the fact itself how they came to offer praises before the calf in the wilderness, "The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play;" until food had entered in blasphemies did not go forth, and until wine had been poured into them they were not clothed with the fornication which is against God.
— Philoxenus of Mabbug, 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 10 -- On Gluttony

But he who has engulfed and plunged himself in such wallowing places, falls also into the snare of unbelief; for the people sat down to eat and to drink, and required that gods should be made for them. Hereby the Lord teaches us that he who gives up his soul to these two kinds of vices, is stript of the garment, not of a woollen vest, but of living virtue; that clothing which is not temporal but eternal.
— Ambrose of Milan, Letter 58.16

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Dictionary and topics

Levite — A descendant of the tribe of Levi (Ex. 6:25; Lev. 25:32; Num. 35:2; Josh. 21:3, 41). This name is, however, generally used as the title of that portion of the tribe which was set apart for the…
Levites — (descendants of Levi). Sometimes the name extends to the whole tribe, the priests included, (Exodus 6:25; Leviticus 25:32; Numbers 35:2; Joshua 21:3,41) etc; sometimes only to those members of the…
Amusements And Pleasures, Worldly · Formed a part of idolatrous worship — Formed a part of idolatrous worship
Amusements And Worldly Pleasures · Formed a part of idolatrous worship — Formed a part of idolatrous worship
Calf Of Gold · Sacrifices offered to — Sacrifices offered to
Eating · Sitting at table — Sitting at table
Feasts · Men and women atten — Men and women atten
Idolatry · .Licentiousness of — .Licentiousness of
Lasciviousness · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Offence · Exemplified: Aaron — Exemplified: Aaron

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Exodus 32:6

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 32:1-6

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 32:5

Adam Clarke on Exodus 32:6

John Gill on Exodus 32:6

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Exodus 32:6

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 32:1-6

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 32:5

Adam Clarke on Exodus 32:6

John Gill on Exodus 32:6

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Exodus 32:6

Keil & Delitzsch on Exodus 32:1-6

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Exodus 32:6

Rashi on Exodus 32:6