Exodus 32:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁸ The sons of Levi did as Moses commanded, and about three thousand of the people fell on that day.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about 3000 men.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

Common English Bible

²⁸ The Levites did as Moses commanded. About three thousand people were killed that day.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ And the sons of Levi did according to the words of Moses, and there fell on that day about twenty-three thousand men.

Exodus 32:28 Cross References

Deuteronomy 33:9

who said of his father and mother, ‘I regard them not’; he ignored his kin and did not acknowledge his children. For they observed your word and kept your covenant.

1 Corinthians 10:8

We must not engage in sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.

Numbers 16:41

On the next day, however, the whole congregation of the Israelites rebelled against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed the people of the Lord.”

Exodus 32:27

He said to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Put your sword on your side, each of you! Go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each of you kill your brother, your friend, and your neighbor.”

Exodus 32:29

Moses said, “Today you have been ordained for the service of the Lord, each one at the cost of a son or a brother, and so have brought a blessing on yourselves this day.”

Exodus 32:35

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

Numbers 25:7

When Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he got up and left the congregation. Taking a spear in his hand,

Psalm 99:8

O Lord our God, you answered them; you were a forgiving God to them but an avenger of their wrongdoings.

Numbers 35:8

And as for the towns that you shall give from the possession of the Israelites, from the larger tribes you shall take many, and from the smaller tribes you shall take few; each, in proportion to the inheritance that it obtains, shall give of its towns to the Levites.”