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Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!
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"Your People," Not Mine
Multiple commentators (Spurgeon, Ellicott, Gill) highlight God's striking language. By calling Israel "your people," God distances Himself from them in His righteous anger. They had broken the covenant, and in that moment of wrath, He presents them as Moses's responsibility, not His own. This verbal shift underscores the severity of their sin and the broken fellowship.
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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
Anglican
GOD’S OFFER TO MOSES.
The Lord said to Moses, Go, get thee down. — Moses was, of course, wholly i…
Baptist
And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
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16th Century
Protestant
And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down. This was a violent temptation intended to shake the faith of Moses. He thought that his o…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the Lord said to Moses, go, get you down In (Deuteronomy 9:12) it is added, "quickly", and so the Se…
God says to Moses that the Israelites had corrupted themselves. Sin is the corruption of the sinner, and it is a self-corruption; every man is …
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