O Lord our God, thou didst answer them; thou wast a forgiving God to them, but an avenger of their wrongdoings.
Exodus 32:28 - Revised Standard Version CI And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 The Levites did as Moses commanded. About three thousand people were killed that day. Catholic Public Domain Version And the sons of Levi did according to the words of Moses, and there fell on that day about twenty-three thousand men. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the sons of Levi did according to the words of Moses: and there were slain that day about three and twenty thousand men. |
O Lord our God, thou didst answer them; thou wast a forgiving God to them, but an avenger of their wrongdoings.
And he said to them, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Put every man his sword on his side, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.’ ”
And Moses said, “Today you have ordained yourselves for the service of the Lord, each one at the cost of his son and of his brother, that he may bestow a blessing upon you this day.”
And the Lord sent a plague upon the people, because they made the calf which Aaron made.
But on the morrow all the congregation of the people of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed the people of the Lord.”
When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation, and took a spear in his hand
And as for the cities which you shall give from the possession of the people of Israel, from the larger tribes you shall take many, and from the smaller tribes you shall take few; each, in proportion to the inheritance which it inherits, shall give of its cities to the Levites.”
We must not indulge in immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.
who said of his father and mother, ‘I regard them not’; he disowned his brothers, and ignored his children. For they observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.