Exodus 32:31
Good News Translation
Moses then returned to the LORD and said, "These people have committed a terrible sin. They have made a god out of gold and worshiped it.

New Revised Standard Version
So Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Alas, this people has sinned a great sin; they have made for themselves gods of gold.

Contemporary English Version
Moses returned to the LORD and said, "The people have committed a terrible sin. They have made a gold idol to be their god.

New American Bible
So Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Ah, this people has committed a grave sin in making a god of gold for themselves!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And returning to the Lord, he said: I beseech thee: this people hath sinned a heinous sin, and they have made to themselves gods of gold: either forgive them this trespass,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And returning to the Lord, he said: I beseech thee: this people hath sinned a heinous sin, and they have made to themselves gods of gold: either forgive them this trespass,

returned

Exodus 34:28 And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights: he neither ate bread nor drank water, and he wrote upon the tables the ten words of the covenant.

Deuteronomy 9:18,19 And I fell down before the Lord as before, forty days and nights neither eating bread, nor drinking water, for all your sins, which you had committed against the Lord, and had provoked him to wrath: . . .

sinned

Exodus 32:30 And when the next day was come, Moses spoke to the people: You have sinned a very great sin: I will go up to the Lord, if by any means I may be able to entreat him for your crime.

Ezra 9:6,7,15 And said: My God I am confounded and ashamed to lift up my face to thee: for our iniquities are multiplied over our heads, and our sins are grown up even unto heaven, . . .

Nehemiah 9:33 And thou art just in all things that have come upon us: because thou hast done truth, but we have done wickedly.

Daniel 9:5,8,11 We have sinned, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly, and have revolted: and we have gone aside from thy commandments, and thy judgments. . . .

made

Exodus 20:4,23 Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth. . . .

Context
Moses Intercedes for Israel
30And when the next day was come, Moses spoke to the people: You have sinned a very great sin: I will go up to the Lord, if by any means I may be able to entreat him for your crime. 31And returning to the Lord, he said: I beseech thee: this people hath sinned a heinous sin, and they have made to themselves gods of gold: either forgive them this trespass,32Or if thou do not, strike me out of the book that thou hast written.…
Cross References
Exodus 20:23
You shall not make gods of silver, nor shall you make to yourselves gods of gold.

Nehemiah 9:18
Yea when they had made also to themselves a molten calf, and had said: This is thy God, that brought thee out of Egypt: and had committed great blasphemies:

Exodus 32:30
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