Exodus 32:29

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.”

Cross References

2 Chronicles 35:3

He said to the Levites who taught all Israel and who were holy to the Lord, “Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon son of David, king of Israel, built; you need no longer carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the Lord your God and his people Israel.

Exodus 32:28

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

Exodus 32:30

On the next day Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. But now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”

Proverbs 21:3

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

Zechariah 13:3

And if any prophets appear again, their fathers and mothers who bore them will say to them, “You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the Lord,” and their fathers and their mothers who bore them shall pierce them through when they prophesy.

Matthew 10:37

“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me,