Exodus 32:27

Easy To Read Version

Then Moses said to them, “I will tell you what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Every man must get his sword and go from one end of the camp to the other. {You must punish these people, even if} each man must kill his brother, friends, and neighbors.’”

Cross References

2 Kings 10:25

Quickly after Jehu had finished offering the burnt offering, he said to the guards and to the captains, “Go in and kill the worshipers of Baal! Don’t let any person come out of the temple alive!”

Exodus 32:26

So Moses stood at the entrance to the camp. Moses said, “Any person who wants to follow the Lord should come to me.” And all the people from the family of Levi ran to Moses.

Exodus 32:28

The people from the family of Levi obeyed Moses. That day about 3,000 of the people of Israel died.

Exodus 32:29

Then Moses said, “The Lord has chosen you today to be the people who will bless your sons and brothers.”

Numbers 25:5

So Moses said to Israel’s judges, “Each of you must find the men in your family group that have led people to worship the false god, Baal of Peor. Then you must kill those men.”

Luke 14:26

“If a person comes to me, but will not leave his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, or sisters, then that person cannot be my follower. A person must love me more than he loves anything—even his own life!

2 Corinthians 5:16

That is why we never become weak. Our physical body is becoming older and weaker, but our spirit inside us is made new every day.

Deuteronomy 13:6

“Someone close to you might secretly persuade you to worship other gods. It might be your own brother, your son, your daughter, the wife you love or your closest friend. That person might say, ‘Let’s go and serve other gods.’ (These are gods that you and your ancestors never knew.