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The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
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A Targeted Judgment
Commentators clarify that this was not an indiscriminate massacre. An offer was first made for people to declare their loyalty to God. Scholars suggest that those slain were the unrepentant ringleaders and those who openly persisted in their idolatry after Moses' return, making this a specific, judicial act rather than a random slaughter.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The faithfulness of Moses in the office that had been entrusted to him was now to be put to the test. It was to be revealed whether he loved his ow…
19th Century
Baptist
And when Moses saw that the people were naked, (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies) then Moses stood in the gat…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses They girded their swords …
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