What happened in Exodus chapter 32?
Moses reaches the camp, sees everyone rejoicing around, and smashes the tablets in anger. Then he burns the calf, grinds it up into powder, mixes the gold-dust with water, and forces the Israelites to drink it. Moses draws a line in the sand, and the Levites (a tribe of Israel) come over to Moses.
What was the Israelites punishment?
Exodus includes the story of the killing of every firstborn child in Egypt as the final punishment for having enslaved the Israelites.
What did Moses do with the tablets of the law?
As he approached the camp and saw the calf and the groups dancing, Moses’ anger blazed. He threw down the tablets he was holding and broke them at the foot of the mountain (Exod 32:15, 19).
Why did Moses make Israelites drink gold?
The reason Moses made the people of Israel, who worshiped the golden calf, drink the water with the ash was because of their sin. By taking the golden calf and destroying it, by making it into ashes, there is the idea of from ashes to ashes; whatever you do as humans is worthless.
What is the punishment of the woman based on the law of Moses?
In the law of Moses, mothers and fathers were to be re- spected equally. The punishment was death for smiting or cursing either parent (see Exodus 21:15, 17; Leviticus 20:9).
Why did Moses break the tablets of the Covenant?
According to the biblical narrative the first set of tablets, inscribed by the finger of God, (Exodus 31:18) were smashed by Moses when he was enraged by the sight of the Children of Israel worshipping a golden calf (Exodus 32:19) and the second were later chiseled out by Moses and rewritten by God (Exodus 34:1).
What happened when Moses saw the golden calf?
Moses went down from the mountain, but upon seeing the calf, he became angry and threw down the two Tablets of Stone, breaking them. Moses burnt the golden calf in a fire, ground it to powder, scattered it on water, and forced the Israelites to drink it.