Exodus 32:28 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 32:28

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

KJV

And the children 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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Commentary

3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

There fell about three thousand men - These were no doubt the chief transgressors; having broken the covenant by having other gods besides Jehovah, they lost the Divine protection, and then the justice of God laid hold on and slew them. Moses doubtless had positive orders from God for this act of justice, (see Exo 32:27); for though, through his intercession, the people were spared so as not to be exterminated as a nation, yet the principal transgressors, those who were set on mischief, Exo 32:22, were to be put to death.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The interest of sin and wickedness is the devil's interest, and all wicked people side with that interest; the interest of truth and holiness is God's interest, with which all godly people side; and it is a case that will not admit a neutrality.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said--The camp is supposed to have been protected by a rampart after the attack of the Amalekites. Who is on the Lord's side? let him come unto me--The zeal and courage of Moses was astonishing, considering he opposed an intoxicated mob.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיַּֽעֲשׂ֥וּ	vai.ya.'a.Su	and they did	H6213 →
בְנֵֽי־	ve.nei-	[the] descendants of	H1121 →
לֵוִ֖י	le.Vi	Levi	H3878 →
כִּדְבַ֣ר	kid.Var	according to [the] word of	H1697 →
מֹשֶׁ֑ה	mo.Sheh	Moses	H4872 →
וַיִּפֹּ֤ל	vai.yi.Pol	and it fell	H5307 →
מִן־	min-	of	H4480 →
הָעָם֙	ha.'Am	the people	H5971 →
בַּיּ֣וֹם	bai.Yom	on the day	H3117 →
הַה֔וּא	ha.Hu'	<the> that	H1931 →
כִּשְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת	kish.Lo.shet	about three	H7969 →
אַלְפֵ֖י	'al.Fei	thousand<s>	H505 →
אִֽישׁ׃	'Ish	person[s]	H376 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Corinthians 10:8
We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
leads to
- Numbers 25:1–9
  While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,
- 1 Corinthians 6:18
  Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
- Psalms 106:29
  So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9
  Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual…
- Revelation 2:14
  But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food…
Through
Deuteronomy 33:9
He said of his father and mother, ‘I do not consider them.’ He disregarded his brothers and did not know his own sons, for he kept Your word and maintained Your covenant.
leads to
- Exodus 32:25–29
  Moses saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them run wild and become a laughingstock to their enemies.
- Matthew 10:37
  Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
- Jeremiah 18:18
  Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us…