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¹Halk, Musa'nın dağdan aşağı inmekte geciktiğini görünce Harun'a karşı ayaklandı ve ona, "Kalk, bize önümüzden gidecek tanrılar yap; çünkü bizi Mısır diyarından çıkaran bu adam Musa'ya ne oldu bilmiyoruz" dediler.

²Harun onlara, "Karılarınızın ve kızlarınızın kulaklarındaki altın küpeleri söküp çıkarın ve bana getirin" dedi.

³Bütün halk kulaklarındaki altın küpeleri söküp çıkararak Harun'a getirdi.

⁴Harun bunları onların ellerinden aldı, bir oyma kalemiyle biçimlendirdi ve onlardan dökme bir buzağı yaptı. Onlar da, "Ey İsrail, seni Mısır diyarından yukarı çıkaran tanrıların bunlardır!" dediler.

⁵Harun bunu görünce buzağının önünde bir sunak inşa etti ve, "Yarın Rab'be bir bayramdır" diye ilan etti.

⁶Ertesi gün erkenden kalkıp yakmalık sunular sundular ve esenlik kurbanları getirdiler. Halk yemek ve içmek için oturdu, sonra da ritüel oyunlar oynamak üzere ayağa kalktı.

⁷Rab Musa'ya şöyle dedi: "Hızla git, buradan aşağı in; çünkü Mısır diyarından çıkardığın senin halkın yasayı çiğnedi.

⁸Onlara buyurduğum yoldan çabucak saptılar; kendilerine bir buzağı yapıp ona tapındılar, ona kurbanlar sundular ve, 'Ey İsrail, seni Mısır diyarından yukarı çıkaran tanrıların bunlardır!' dediler."

⁹"Şimdi beni bırak, onlara karşı öfkeyle alevlenip onları yok edeyim;"

¹⁰"seni ise büyük bir ulus haline getireceğim."

¹¹Musa ise Tanrısı Rab'bin huzurunda yalvararak şöyle dedi: "Neden, ya Rab, Mısır diyarından büyük bir güçle ve yüksek kolunla çıkardığın kendi halkına karşı öfkeyle alevleniyorsun?

¹²Mısırlılar, 'Onları dağlarda öldürmek ve yeryüzünden yok etmek için kötülükle çıkardı' demesinler. Kızgın öfkenden dön ve halkının kötülüğüne karşı merhametli ol.

¹³Kendi üzerine ant içtiğin ve kendilerine, 'Soyunuzu sayıca gökteki yıldızlar gibi çoğaltacağım ve söz verdiğim bu bütün ülkeyi soyunuza vereceğim, ona sonsuza dek sahip olacaklar' dediğin kulların İbrahim'i, İshak'ı ve Yakup'u hatırla."

¹⁴Böylece Rab, halkına yapacağını söylediği kötülük konusunda merhamet gösterdi.

¹⁵Musa geri dönerek elinde tanıklığın iki levhasıyla dağdan indi. Taş levhaların her iki yüzü de, önü ve arkası yazılıydı.

¹⁶Levhalar Tanrı'nın eseriydi; yazı da levhaların üzerine oyulmuş Tanrı'nın yazısıydı.

¹⁷Yeşu bağrışan halkın sesini işitince Musa'ya, "Ordugahta savaş sesi var!" dedi.

¹⁸Musa ise şöyle yanıtladı: "Bu ne zafer kazananların sesidir, ne de bozguna uğrayanların feryadıdır; benim işittiğim, şarap şarkıları söyleyenlerin sesidir."

¹⁹Musa ordugaha yaklaşınca buzağıyı ve dans edenleri gördü; öfkesi alevlenen Musa, elindeki iki levhayı fırlatıp dağın eteğinde parçaladı.

²⁰Yaptıkları buzağıyı alıp ateşte yaktı, incecik toz haline gelene dek öğüttü, suya serperek İsrailoğulları'na içirdi.

²¹Musa Harun'a, "Bu halk sana ne yaptı ki, üzerlerine bu kadar büyük bir günah getirdin?" dedi.

²²Harun, "Öfkelenme, efendim" dedi, "Bu halkın dürtülerine ne kadar kapıldığını bilirsin.

²³Bana, 'Bize önümüzden gidecek tanrılar yap; çünkü bizi Mısır'dan çıkaran bu adam Musa'ya ne oldu bilmiyoruz' dediler.

²⁴Ben de onlara, 'Kimin altını varsa söküp çıkarsın' dedim. Onlar da bana verdiler; ben de onu ateşe attım ve bu buzağı çıktı."

²⁵Musa halkın dağıtılmış olduğunu gördü; çünkü Harun onları düşmanlarının alay konusu olacak şekilde dağıtmıştı.

²⁶Musa ordugahın kapısında durup, "Rab'den yana olan kim varsa yanıma gelsin!" dedi. Bunun üzerine bütün Levi oğulları onun çevresinde toplandı.

²⁷Musa onlara şöyle dedi: "İsrail'in Tanrısı Rab şöyle diyor: 'Herkes kılıcını kalçasına kuşansın. Ordugahın bir kapısından öbür kapısına gidip gelsin ve herkes kardeşini, arkadaşını ve en yakınını öldürsün.'"

²⁸Levi oğulları Musa'nın buyruğunu yerine getirdiler ve o gün halktan yaklaşık üç bin kişi öldü.

²⁹Musa, "Bugün her biriniz oğluna ya da kardeşine karşı durduğu için ellerinizi Rab'be adadınız; bugün üzerinize bir bereket verilecektir" dedi.

³⁰Ertesi gün Musa halka, "Siz çok büyük bir günah işlediniz" dedi, "Şimdi Tanrı'nın huzuruna çıkacağım, belki günahınız için kefaret sağlayabilirim."

³¹Musa Rab'be dönerek şöyle dedi: "Yalvarırım ya Rab, bu halk çok büyük bir günah işledi, kendilerine altından tanrılar yaptılar.

³²Şimdi, eğer günahlarını bağışlarsan bağışla; yoksa yazdığın kitaptan benim adımı sil."

³³Rab Musa'ya, "Bana karşı kim günah işlediyse, onun adını kitabımdan sileceğim" dedi.

³⁴"Şimdi git, halkı sana söylediğim yere götür. İşte, meleğim senin önünden gidecektir. Ama hesap soracağım gün geldiğinde, günahlarının cezasını onlara yükleyeceğim."

³⁵Ve Rab, Harun'un yaptığı buzağı yüzünden halka bela gönderdi.

¹ΚΑΙ ἰδὼν ὁ λαὸς ὅτι κεχρόνικε Μωυσῆς καταβῆναι ἐκ τοῦ ὄρους, συνέστη ὁ λαὸς ἐπὶ ᾿Ααρὼν καὶ λέγουσιν αὐτῷ· ἀνάστηθι καὶ ποίησον ἡμῖν θεούς, οἳ προπορεύσονται ἡμῶν· ὁ γὰρ Μωυσῆς οὗτος ὁ ἄνθρωπος, ὃς ἐξήγαγεν ἡμᾶς ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου, οὐκ οἴδαμεν τί γέγονεν αὐτῷ.

²καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς ᾿Ααρών· περιέλεσθε τὰ ἐνώτια τὰ χρυσὰ τὰ ἐκ τοῖς ὠσὶ τῶν γυναικῶν ὑμῶν καὶ θυγατέρων καὶ ἐνέγκατε πρός με.

³καὶ περιείλαντο πᾶς ὁ λαὸς τὰ ἐνώτια τὰ χρυσᾶ τὰ ἐν τοῖς ὠσὶν αὐτῶν καὶ ἤνεγκαν πρὸς ᾿Ααρών.

⁴καὶ ἐδέξατο ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν αὐτῶν καὶ ἔπλασεν αὐτὰ ἐν τῇ γραφίδι καὶ ἐποίησεν αὐτὰ μόσχον χωνευτὸν καὶ εἶπεν· οὗτοι οἱ θεοί σου, ᾿Ισραήλ, οἵτινες ἀνεβίβασάν σε ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου.

⁵καὶ ἰδὼν ᾿Ααρὼν ᾠκοδόμησε θυσιαστήριον κατέναντι αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐκήρυξεν ᾿Ααρὼν λέγων· ἑορτὴν τοῦ Κυρίου αὔριον.

⁶καὶ ὀρθρίσας τῇ ἐπαύριον ἀνεβίβασεν ὁλοκαυτώματα καὶ προσήνεγκε θυσίαν σωτηρίου, καὶ ἐκάθισεν ὁ λαὸς φαγεῖν καὶ πιεῖν καὶ ἀνέστησαν παίζειν.

⁷Καὶ ἐλάλησε Κύριος πρὸς Μωυσῆν λέγων· βάδιζε τὸ τάχος, κατάβηθι ἐντεῦθεν· ἠνόμησε γὰρ ὁ λαός σου, ὃν ἐξήγαγες ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου·

⁸παρέβησαν ταχὺ ἐκ τῆς ὁδοῦ, ἧς ἐνετείλω αὐτοῖς· ἐποίησαν ἑαυτοῖς μόσχον καὶ προσκεκυνήκασιν αὐτῷ καὶ τεθύκασιν αὐτῷ καὶ εἶπαν· οὗτοι οἱ θεοί σου, ᾿Ισραήλ, οἵτινες ἀνεβίβασάν σε ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου.

⁹καὶ νῦν ἔασόν με καὶ θυμωθεὶς ὀργῇ εἰς αὐτούς ἐκτρίψω αὐτοὺς

¹⁰καὶ ποιήσω σε εἰς ἔθνος μέγα.

¹¹καὶ ἐδεήθη Μωυσῆς ἔναντι Κυρίου τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ εἶπεν· ἱνατί, Κύριε, θυμοῖ ὀργῇ εἰς τὸν λαόν σου, οὓς ἐξήγαγες ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου ἐν ἰσχύϊ μεγάλῃ καὶ ἐν τῷ βραχίονί σου τῷ ὑψηλῷ;

¹²μή ποτε εἴπωσιν οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι λέγοντες· μετὰ πονηρίας ἐξήγαγεν αὐτοὺς ἀποκτεῖναι ἐν τοῖς ὄρεσι καὶ ἐξαναλῶσαι αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς. παῦσαι τῆς ὀργῆς τοῦ θυμοῦ σου καὶ ἵλεως γενοῦ ἐπὶ τῇ κακίᾳ τοῦ λαοῦ σου,

¹³μνησθεὶς ῾Αβραὰμ καὶ ᾿Ισαὰκ καὶ ᾿Ιακὼβ τῶν σῶν οἰκετῶν, οἷς ὤμοσας κατὰ σεαυτοῦ καὶ ἐλάλησας πρὸς αὐτοὺς λέγων· πολυπληθυνῶ τὸ σπέρμα ὑμῶν ὡσεὶ τὰ ἄστρα τοῦ οὐρανοῦ τῷ πλήθει, καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ταύτην, ἣν εἶπας δοῦναι τῷ σπέρματι αὐτῶν, καὶ καθέξουσιν αὐτὴν εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.

¹⁴καὶ ἱλάσθη Κύριος περὶ τῆς κακίας, ἧς εἶπε ποιῆσαι τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ.

¹⁵Καὶ ἀποστρέψας Μωυσῆς κατέβη ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄρους, καὶ αἱ δύο πλάκες τοῦ μαρτυρίου ἐν ταῖς χερσὶν αὐτοῦ, πλάκες λίθιναι καταγεγραμμέναι ἐξ ἀμφοτέρων τῶν μερῶν αὐτῶν, ἔνθεν καὶ ἔνθεν ἦσαν γεγραμμέναι·

¹⁶καὶ αἱ πλάκες ἔργον Θεοῦ ἦσαν, καὶ ἡ γραφὴ γραφὴ Θεοῦ κεκολαμμένη ἐν ταῖς πλαξί.

¹⁷καὶ ἀκούσας ᾿Ιησοῦς τῆς φωνῆς τοῦ λαοῦ κραζόντων λέγει πρὸς Μωυσῆν· φωνὴ πολέμου ἐν τῇ παρεμβολῇ.

¹⁸καὶ λέγει· οὐκ ἔστι φωνὴ ἐξαρχόντων κατ᾿ ἰσχύν, οὐδὲ φωνὴ ἐξαρχόντων τροπῆς, ἀλλὰ φωνὴν ἐξαρχόντων οἴνου ἐγὼ ἀκούω.

¹⁹καὶ ἡνίκα ἤγγιζε τῇ παρεμβολῇ, ὁρᾷ τὸν μόσχον καὶ τοὺς χορούς, καὶ ὀργισθεὶς θυμῷ Μωυσῆς ἔρριψεν ἀπὸ τῶν χειρῶν αὐτοῦ τὰς δύο πλάκας, καὶ συνέτριψεν αὐτὰς ὑπὸ τὸ ὄρος.

²⁰καὶ λαβὼν τὸν μόσχον, ὃν ἐποίησαν, κατέκαυσεν αὐτὸν ἐν πυρὶ καὶ κατήλεσεν αὐτὸν λεπτὸν καὶ ἔσπειρεν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὸ ὕδωρ καὶ ἐπότισεν αὐτὸ τοὺς υἱοὺς ᾿Ισραήλ.

²¹καὶ εἶπε Μωυσῆς τῷ ᾿Ααρών· τί ἐποίησέ σοι ὁ λαὸς οὗτος, ὅτι ἐπήγαγες ἐπ᾿ αὐτοὺς ἁμαρτίαν μεγάλην;

²²καὶ εἶπεν ᾿Ααρὼν πρὸς Μωυσῆν· μὴ ὀργίζου, κύριε· σὺ γὰρ οἶδας τὸ ὅρμημα τοῦ λαοῦ τούτου.

²³λέγουσι γάρ μοι· ποίησον ἡμῖν θεούς, οἳ προπορεύσονται ἡμῶν· ὁ γὰρ Μωυσῆς οὗτος ὁ ἄνθρωπος, ὃς ἐξήγαγεν ἡμᾶς ἐξ Αἰγύπτου, οὐκ οἴδαμεν τί γέγονεν αὐτῷ.

²⁴καὶ εἶπα αὐτοῖς· εἴ τινι ὑπάρχει χρυσία, περιέλεσθε. καὶ ἔδωκάν μοι· καὶ ἔρριψα εἰς τὸ πῦρ, καὶ ἐξῆλθεν ὁ μόσχος οὗτος.

²⁵καὶ ἰδὼν Μωυσῆς τὸν λαὸν ὅτι διεσκέδασται, διεσκέδασε γὰρ αὐτοὺς ᾿Ααρὼν ἐπίχαρμα τοῖς ὑπεναντίοις αὐτῶν,

²⁶ἔστη δὲ Μωυσῆς ἐπὶ τῆς πύλης τῆς παρεμβολῆς καὶ εἶπε· τίς πρὸς Κύριον; ἴτω πρός με. συνῆλθον οὖν πρὸς αὐτὸν πάντες οἱ υἱοὶ Λευί.

²⁷καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς· τάδε λέγει Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ᾿Ισραήλ· θέσθε ἕκαστος τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ῥομφαίαν ἐπὶ τὸν μηρὸν καὶ διέλθατε καὶ ἀνακάμψατε ἀπὸ πύλης ἐπὶ πύλην διά τῆς παρεμβολῆς καὶ ἀποκτείνατε ἕκαστος τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἕκαστος τὸν πλησίον αὐτοῦ καὶ ἕκαστος τὸ ἔγγιστα αὐτοῦ.

²⁸καὶ ἐποίησαν οἱ υἱοὶ Λευὶ καθὰ ἐλάλησεν αὐτοῖς Μωυσῆς, καὶ ἔπεσαν ἐκ τοῦ λαοῦ ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ εἰς τρισχιλίους ἄνδρας.

²⁹καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς Μωυσῆς· ἐπληρώσατε τὰς χεῖρας ὑμῶν σήμερον Κυρίῳ, ἕκαστος ἐν τῷ υἱῷ ἢ ἐν τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὐτοῦ, δοθῆναι ἐφ᾿ ὑμᾶς εὐλογίαν.

³⁰Καὶ ἐγένετο μετὰ τὴν αὔριον εἶπε Μωυσῆς πρὸς τὸν λαόν· ὑμεῖς ἡμαρτήκατε ἁμαρτίαν μεγάλην· καὶ νῦν ἀναβήσομαι πρὸς τὸν Θεόν, ἵνα ἐξιλάσωμαι περὶ τῆς ἁμαρτίας ὑμῶν.

³¹ὑπέστρεψε δὲ Μωυσῆς πρὸς Κύριον καὶ εἶπε· δέομαι, Κύριε· ἡμάρτηκεν ὁ λαὸς οὗτος ἁμαρτίαν μεγάλην καὶ ἐποίησαν ἑαυτοῖς θεοὺς χρυσοῦς.

³²καὶ νῦν εἰ μὲν ἀφεῖς αὐτοῖς τὴν ἁμαρτίαν αὐτῶν, ἄφες· εἰ δὲ μή, ἐξάλειψόν με ἐκ τῆς βίβλου σου, ἧς ἔγραψας.

³³καὶ εἶπε Κύριος πρὸς Μωυσῆν· εἴ τις ἡμάρτηκεν ἐνώπιόν μου, ἐξαλείψω αὐτοὺς ἐκ τῆς βίβλου μου.

³⁴νυνὶ δὲ βάδιζε, κατάβηθι καὶ ὁδήγησον τὸν λαὸν τοῦτον εἰς τὸν τόπον, ὃν εἶπά σοι· ἰδοὺ ὁ ἄγγελός μου προπορεύσεται πρὸ προσώπου σου· ᾗ δ᾿ ἂν ἡμέρᾳ ἐπισκέπτωμαι, ἐπάξω ἐπ᾿ αὐτοὺς τὴν ἁμαρτίαν αὐτῶν.

³⁵καὶ ἐπάταξε Κύριος τὸν λαὸν περὶ τῆς ποιήσεως τοῦ μόσχου, οὗ ἐποίησεν ᾿Ααρών.

¹And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people combined against Aaron, and said to him, Arise and make us gods who shall go before us; for this Moses, the man who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt-- we do not know what is become of him.

²And Aaron says to them, Take off the golden ear-rings which are in the ears of your wives and daughters, and bring them to me.

³And all the people took off the golden ear-rings that were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

⁴And he received them at their hands, and formed them with a graving tool; and he made them a molten calf, and said, These [are] thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

⁵And Aaron having seen it built an altar before it, and Aaron made proclamation saying, To-morrow [is] a feast of the Lord.

⁶And having risen early on the morrow, he offered whole burnt-offerings, and offered a peace-offering; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

⁷And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Go quickly, descend hence, for thy people whom thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt have transgressed;

⁸they have quickly gone out of the way which thou commandedst; they have made for themselves a calf, and worshipped it, and sacrificed to it, and said, These are thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

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¹⁰And now let me alone, and I will be very angry with them and consume them, and I will make thee a great nation.

¹¹And Moses prayed before the Lord God, and said, Wherefore, O Lord, art thou very angry with thy people, whom thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt with great strength, and with thy high arm?

¹²[Take heed] lest at any time the Egyptians speak, saying, With evil intent he brought them out to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from off the earth; cease from thy wrathful anger, and be merciful to the sin of thy people,

¹³remembering Abraam and Isaac and Jacob thy servants, to whom thou hast sworn by thyself, and hast spoken to them, saying, I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of heaven for multitude, and all this land which thou spokest of to give to them, so that they shall possess it for ever.

¹⁴And the Lord was prevailed upon to preserve his people.

¹⁵And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two tables of testimony were in his hands, tables of stone written on both their sides: they were written within and without.

¹⁶And the tables were the work of God, and the writing the writing of God written on the tables.

¹⁷And Joshua having heard the voice of the people crying, says to Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.

¹⁸And [Moses] says, It is not the voice of them that begin the battle, nor the voice of them that begin [the cry] of defeat, but the voice of them that begin [the banquet] of wine do I hear.

¹⁹And when he drew nigh to the camp, he sees the calf and the dances; and Moses being very angry cast the two tables out of his hands, and broke them to pieces under the mountain.

²⁰And having taken the calf which they made, he consumed it with fire, and ground it very small, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel to drink it.

²¹And Moses said to Aaron, What has this people done to thee, that thou hast brought upon them a great sin?

²²And Aaron said to Moses, Be not angry, [my] lord, for thou knowest the impetuosity of this people.

²³For they say to me, Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this man Moses, who brought us out of Egypt, we do not know what is become of him.

²⁴And I said to them, If any one has golden ornaments, take them off; and they gave them me, and I cast them into the fire, and there came out this calf.

²⁵And when Moses saw that the people was scattered,-- for Aaron [had] scattered them [so as to be] a rejoicing to their enemies,--

²⁶then stood Moses at the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the Lord’s side? let him come to me. Then all the sons of Levi came to him.

²⁷And he says to them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every one his sword on his thigh, and go through and return from gate to gate through the camp, and slay every one his brother, and every one his neighbour, and every one him that is nearest to him.

²⁸And the sons of Levi did as Moses spoke to them, and there fell of the people in that day to the [number of] three thousand men.

²⁹And Moses said to them, Ye have filled your hands this day to the Lord each one on his son or on his brother, so that blessing should be given to you.

³⁰And it came to pass after the morrow [had begun], that Moses said to the people, Ye have sinned a great sin; and now I will go up to God, that I may make atonement for your sin.

³¹And Moses returned to the Lord and said, I pray, O Lord, this people has sinned a great sin, and they have made for themselves golden gods.

³²And now if thou wilt forgive their sin, forgive [it]; and if not, blot me out of thy book, which thou hast written.

³³And the Lord said to Moses, If any one has sinned against me, I will blot them out of my book.

³⁴And now go, descend, and lead this people into the place of which I spoke to thee: behold, my angel shall go before thy face; and in the day when I shall visit I will bring upon them their sin.

³⁵And the Lord smote the people for the making the calf, which Aaron made.