Exodus 32

1 Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!”

1 وَلَمَّا رَأَى ٱلشَّعْبُ أَنَّ مُوسَى أَبْطَأَ فِي ٱلنُّزُولِ مِنَ ٱلْجَبَلِ، ٱجْتَمَعَ ٱلشَّعْبُ عَلَى هَارُونَ وَقَالُوا لَهُ: «قُمِ ٱصْنَعْ لَنَا آلِهَةً تَسِيرُ أَمَامَنَا، لِأَنَّ هَذَا مُوسَى ٱلرَّجُلَ ٱلَّذِي أَصْعَدَنَا مِنْ أَرْضِ مِصْرَ، لَا نَعْلَمُ مَاذَا أَصَابَهُ».

2 So Aaron told them, “Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me.”

2 فَقَالَ لَهُمْ هَارُونُ: «ٱنْزِعُوا أَقْرَاطَ ٱلذَّهَبِ ٱلَّتِي فِي آذَانِ نِسَائِكُمْ وَبَنِيكُمْ وَبَنَاتِكُمْ وَآتُونِي بِهَا».

3 Then all the people took off their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron.

3 فَنَزَعَ كُلُّ ٱلشَّعْبِ أَقْرَاطَ ٱلذَّهَبِ ٱلَّتِي فِي آذَانِهِمْ وَأَتَوْا بِهَا إِلَى هَارُونَ.

4 He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

4 فَأَخَذَ ذَلِكَ مِنْ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَصَوَّرَهُ بِٱلْإِزْمِيلِ، وَصَنَعَهُ عِجْلًا مَسْبُوكًا. فَقَالُوا: «هَذِهِ آلِهَتُكَ يَا إِسْرَائِيلُ ٱلَّتِي أَصْعَدَتْكَ مِنْ أَرْضِ مِصْرَ».

5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before the calf and proclaimed: “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD.”

5 فَلَمَّا نَظَرَ هَارُونُ بَنَى مَذْبَحًا أَمَامَهُ، وَنَادَى هَارُونُ وَقَالَ: «غَدًا عِيدٌ لِلرَّبِّ».

6 So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.

6 فَبَكَّرُوا فِي ٱلْغَدِ وَأَصْعَدُوا مُحْرَقَاتٍ وَقَدَّمُوا ذَبَائِحَ سَلَامَةٍ. وَجَلَسَ ٱلشَّعْبُ لِلْأَكْلِ وَٱلشُّرْبِ ثُمَّ قَامُوا لِلَّعِبِ.

7 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.

7 فَقَالَ ٱلرَّبُّ لِمُوسَى: «ٱذْهَبِ ٱنْزِلْ. لِأَنَّهُ قَدْ فَسَدَ شَعْبُكَ ٱلَّذِي أَصْعَدْتَهُ مِنْ أَرْضِ مِصْرَ.

8 How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”

8 زَاغُوا سَرِيعًا عَنِ ٱلطَّرِيقِ ٱلَّذِي أَوْصَيْتُهُمْ بِهِ. صَنَعُوا لَهُمْ عِجْلًا مَسْبُوكًا، وَسَجَدُوا لَهُ وَذَبَحُوا لَهُ وَقَالُوا: هَذِهِ آلِهَتُكَ يَا إِسْرَائِيلُ ٱلَّتِي أَصْعَدَتْكَ مِنْ أَرْضِ مِصْرَ».

9 The LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

9 وَقَالَ ٱلرَّبُّ لِمُوسَى: «رَأَيْتُ هَذَا ٱلشَّعْبَ وَإِذَا هُوَ شَعْبٌ صُلْبُ ٱلرَّقَبَةِ.

10 Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”

10 فَٱلْآنَ ٱتْرُكْنِي لِيَحْمَى غَضَبِي عَلَيْهِمْ وَأُفْنِيَهُمْ، فَأُصَيِّرَكَ شَعْبًا عَظِيمًا».

11 But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God, saying, “O LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?

11 فَتَضَرَّعَ مُوسَى أَمَامَ ٱلرَّبِّ إِلَهِهِ، وَقَالَ: «لِمَاذَا يَا رَبُّ يَحْمَى غَضَبُكَ عَلَى شَعْبِكَ ٱلَّذِي أَخْرَجْتَهُ مِنْ أَرْضِ مِصْرَ بِقُوَّةٍ عَظِيمَةٍ وَيَدٍ شَدِيدَةٍ؟

12 Why should the Egyptians declare, ‘He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people.

12 لِمَاذَا يَتَكَلَّمُ ٱلْمِصْرِيُّونَ قَائِلِينَ: أَخْرَجَهُمْ بِخُبْثٍ لِيَقْتُلَهُمْ فِي ٱلْجِبَالِ، وَيُفْنِيَهُمْ عَنْ وَجْهِ ٱلْأَرْضِ؟ اِرْجِعْ عَنْ حُمُوِّ غَضَبِكَ، وَٱنْدَمْ عَلَى ٱلشَّرِّ بِشَعْبِكَ.

13 Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’”

13 اُذْكُرْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَإِسْحَاقَ وَإِسْرَائِيلَ عَبِيدَكَ ٱلَّذِينَ حَلَفْتَ لَهُمْ بِنَفْسِكَ وَقُلْتَ لَهُمْ: أُكَثِّرُ نَسْلَكُمْ كَنُجُومِ ٱلسَّمَاءِ، وَأُعْطِي نَسْلَكُمْ كُلَّ هَذِهِ ٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلَّتِي تَكَلَّمْتُ عَنْهَا فَيَمْلِكُونَهَا إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ».

14 So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.

14 فَنَدِمَ ٱلرَّبُّ عَلَى ٱلشَّرِّ ٱلَّذِي قَالَ إِنَّهُ يَفْعَلُهُ بِشَعْبِهِ.

15 Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.

15 فَٱنْصَرَفَ مُوسَى وَنَزَلَ مِنَ ٱلْجَبَلِ وَلَوْحَا ٱلشَّهَادَةِ فِي يَدِهِ: لَوْحَانِ مَكْتُوبَانِ عَلَى جَانِبَيْهِمَا. مِنْ هُنَا وَمِنْ هُنَا كَانَا مَكْتُوبَيْنِ.

16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

16 وَٱللَّوْحَانِ هُمَا صَنْعَةُ ٱللهِ، وَٱلْكِتَابَةُ كِتَابَةُ ٱللهِ مَنْقُوشَةٌ عَلَى ٱللَّوْحَيْنِ.

17 When Joshua heard the sound of the people shouting, he said to Moses, “The sound of war is in the camp.”

17 وَسَمِعَ يَشُوعُ صَوْتَ ٱلشَّعْبِ فِي هُتَافِهِ فَقَالَ لِمُوسَى: «صَوْتُ قِتَالٍ فِي ٱلْمَحَلَّةِ».

18 But Moses replied: “It is neither the cry of victory nor the cry of defeat; I hear the sound of singing!”

18 فَقَالَ: «لَيْسَ صَوْتَ صِيَاحِ ٱلنُّصْرَةِ وَلَا صَوْتَ صِيَاحِ ٱلْكَسْرَةِ، بَلْ صَوْتَ غِنَاءٍ أَنَا سَامِعٌ».

19 As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain.

19 وَكَانَ عِنْدَمَا ٱقْتَرَبَ إِلَى ٱلْمَحَلَّةِ أَنَّهُ أَبْصَرَ ٱلْعِجْلَ وَٱلرَّقْصَ، فَحَمِيَ غَضَبُ مُوسَى، وَطَرَحَ ٱللَّوْحَيْنِ مِنْ يَدَيْهِ وَكَسَّرَهُمَا فِي أَسْفَلِ ٱلْجَبَلِ.

20 Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.

20 ثُمَّ أَخَذَ ٱلْعِجْلَ ٱلَّذِي صَنَعُوا وَأَحْرَقَهُ بِٱلنَّارِ، وَطَحَنَهُ حَتَّى صَارَ نَاعِمًا، وَذَرَّاهُ عَلَى وَجْهِ ٱلْمَاءِ، وَسَقَى بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ.

21 “What did this people do to you,” Moses asked Aaron, “that you have led them into so great a sin?”

21 وَقَالَ مُوسَى لِهَارُونَ: «مَاذَا صَنَعَ بِكَ هَذَا ٱلشَّعْبُ حَتَّى جَلَبْتَ عَلَيْهِ خَطِيَّةً عَظِيمَةً؟»

22 “Do not be enraged, my lord,” Aaron replied. “You yourself know that the people are intent on evil.

22 فَقَالَ هَارُونُ: «لَا يَحْمَ غَضَبُ سَيِّدِي. أَنْتَ تَعْرِفُ ٱلشَّعْبَ أَنَّهُ فِي شَرٍّ.

23 They told me, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!’

23 فَقَالُوا لِيَ: ٱصْنَعْ لَنَا آلِهَةً تَسِيرُ أَمَامَنَا، لِأَنَّ هَذَا مُوسَى ٱلرَّجُلَ ٱلَّذِي أَصْعَدَنَا مِنْ أَرْضِ مِصْرَ، لَا نَعْلَمُ مَاذَا أَصَابَهُ.

24 So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, let him take it off,’ and they gave it to me. And when I threw it into the fire, out came this calf!”

24 فَقُلْتُ لَهُمْ: مَنْ لَهُ ذَهَبٌ فَلْيَنْزِعْهُ وَيُعْطِنِي. فَطَرَحْتُهُ فِي ٱلنَّارِ فَخَرَجَ هَذَا ٱلْعِجْلُ».

25 Moses saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them run wild and become a laughingstock to their enemies.

25 وَلَمَّا رَأَى مُوسَى ٱلشَّعْبَ أَنَّهُ مُعَرًّى لِأَنَّ هَارُونَ كَانَ قَدْ عَرَّاهُ لِلْهُزْءِ بَيْنَ مُقَاوِمِيهِ،

26 So Moses stood at the entrance to the camp and said, “Whoever is for the LORD, come to me.” And all the Levites gathered around him.

26 وَقَفَ مُوسَى فِي بَابِ ٱلْمَحَلَّةِ، وَقَالَ: «مَنْ لِلرَّبِّ فَإِلَيَّ». فَٱجْتَمَعَ إِلَيْهِ جَمِيعُ بَنِي لَاوِي.

27 He told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each of you men is to fasten his sword to his side, go back and forth through the camp from gate to gate, and slay his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’”

27 فَقَالَ لَهُمْ: «هَكَذَا قَالَ ٱلرَّبُّ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ: ضَعُوا كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ سَيْفَهُ عَلَى فَخْذِهِ وَمُرُّوا وَٱرْجِعُوا مِنْ بَابٍ إِلَى بَابٍ فِي ٱلْمَحَلَّةِ، وَٱقْتُلُوا كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ أَخَاهُ وَكُلُّ وَاحِدٍ صَاحِبَهُ وَكُلُّ وَاحِدٍ قَرِيبَهُ».

28 The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people fell dead.

28 فَفَعَلَ بَنُو لَاوِي بِحَسَبِ قَوْلِ مُوسَى. وَوَقَعَ مِنَ ٱلشَّعْبِ فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمِ نَحْوُ ثَلَاثَةِ آلَافِ رَجُلٍ.

29 Afterward, Moses said, “Today you have been ordained for service to the LORD, since each man went against his son and his brother; so the LORD has bestowed a blessing on you this day.”

29 وَقَالَ مُوسَى: «ٱمْلَأُوا أَيْدِيَكُمُ ٱلْيَوْمَ لِلرَّبِّ، حَتَّى كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ بِٱبْنِهِ وَبِأَخِيهِ، فَيُعْطِيَكُمُ ٱلْيَوْمَ بَرَكَةً».

30 The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. Now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”

30 وَكَانَ فِي ٱلْغَدِ أَنَّ مُوسَى قَالَ لِلشَّعْبِ: «أَنْتُمْ قَدْ أَخْطَأْتُمْ خَطِيَّةً عَظِيمَةً، فَأَصْعَدُ ٱلْآنَ إِلَى ٱلرَّبِّ لَعَلِّي أُكَفِّرُ خَطِيَّتَكُمْ».

31 So Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made gods of gold for themselves.

31 فَرَجَعَ مُوسَى إِلَى ٱلرَّبِّ، وَقَالَ: «آهِ، قَدْ أَخْطَأَ هَذَا ٱلشَّعْبُ خَطِيَّةً عَظِيمَةً وَصَنَعُوا لِأَنْفُسِهِمْ آلِهَةً مِنْ ذَهَبٍ.

32 Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”

32 وَٱلْآنَ إِنْ غَفَرْتَ خَطِيَّتَهُمْ، وَإِلَّا فَٱمْحُنِي مِنْ كِتَابِكَ ٱلَّذِي كَتَبْتَ».

33 The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book.

33 فَقَالَ ٱلرَّبُّ لِمُوسَى: «مَنْ أَخْطَأَ إِلَيَّ أَمْحُوهُ مِنْ كِتَابِي.

34 Now go, lead the people to the place I described. Behold, My angel shall go before you. But on the day I settle accounts, I will punish them for their sin.”

34 وَٱلْآنَ ٱذْهَبِ ٱهْدِ ٱلشَّعْبَ إِلَى حَيْثُ كَلَّمْتُكَ. هُوَذَا مَلَاكِي يَسِيرُ أَمَامَكَ. وَلَكِنْ فِي يَوْمِ ٱفْتِقَادِي أَفْتَقِدُ فِيهِمْ خَطِيَّتَهُمْ».

35 And the LORD sent a plague on the people because of what they had done with the calf that Aaron had made.

35 فَضَرَبَ ٱلرَّبُّ ٱلشَّعْبَ، لِأَنَّهُمْ صَنَعُوا ٱلْعِجْلَ ٱلَّذِي صَنَعَهُ هَارُونُ.