¹ Kuule, Iisrael! Sa lähed nüüd üle Jordani, et minna alistama rahvaid, kes on suuremad ja vägevamad sinust, linnu, suuri ja taevani kindlustatuid,

² suurt ja pikakasvulist rahvast, anaklasi, keda sa tunned ja kellest sa oled kuulnud: 'Kes suudaks seista anaklaste ees?'

³ Tea siis nüüd, et Issand, su Jumal, on see, kes käib su ees nagu hävitav tuli; tema hävitab neid ja alandab nad su ees - siis ajad sa nad ära ja hukkad kiiresti, nõnda nagu Issand sulle on öelnud.

⁴ Kui Issand, su Jumal, ajab nad ära su eest, siis ära mõtle oma südames, öeldes: 'Minu õigsuse pärast on Issand mind toonud pärima seda maad!', vaid nende rahvaste jumalakartmatuse pärast ajab Issand nad ära su eest.

⁵ Mitte oma õigsuse ja südame siiruse pärast ei pääse sa nende maad pärima, vaid nende rahvaste jumalakartmatuse pärast ajab Issand, su Jumal, nad ära su eest, et pidada, mida Issand on vandega tõotanud su vanemaile, Aabrahamile, Iisakile ja Jaakobile.

⁶ Tea siis, et mitte sinu õigsuse pärast ei anna Issand, su Jumal, sulle pärimiseks seda head maad, sest sa oled kangekaelne rahvas!

⁷ Tuleta meelde, ära unusta, kuidas sa kõrbes vihastasid Issandat, oma Jumalat! Sellest päevast alates, mil sa lahkusid Egiptusemaalt, kuni teie tulekuni siia paika, olete osutanud vastupanu Issandale.

⁸ Juba Hoorebil te pahandasite Issandat ja Issand vihastus teie peale, tahtes teid hävitada.

⁹ Kui ma läksin üles mäele vastu võtma kivilaudu, selle seaduse laudu, mille Issand teile oli andnud, siis jäin ma mäele neljakümneks päevaks ja neljakümneks ööks, leiba söömata ja vett joomata.

¹⁰ Ja Issand andis mulle kaks kivilauda, millele oli kirjutatud Jumala sõrmega, ja nende peal olid kõik sõnad, mis Issand oli kogunemispäeval teile rääkinud mäel tule seest.

¹¹ Neljakümne päeva ja neljakümne öö pärast andis Issand mulle need kaks kivilauda, seaduselauda.

¹² Ja Issand ütles mulle: 'Tõuse ja mine siit kähku alla, sest su rahvas, kelle sa tõid Egiptusest välja, teeb pahasti: nad on juba lahkunud sellelt teelt, mida ma neid käskisin käia - nad on endale valmistanud valatud kuju!'

¹³ Ja Issand rääkis minuga, öeldes: 'Ma olen näinud seda rahvast, ja vaata, see on kangekaelne rahvas!

¹⁴ Jäta mind, ja ma hävitan nad ning kustutan nende nimed taeva alt, sinust aga teen ma vägevama ja suurema rahva kui see!'

¹⁵ Siis ma pöördusin ja läksin mäelt alla: mägi põles tules ja mul oli kaks seaduselauda teine teises käes.

¹⁶ Ja ma vaatasin, ja ennäe, te olite teinud pattu Issanda, oma Jumala vastu: te olite endile valmistanud valatud vasika, olite kiiresti lahkunud teelt, mida Issand teid oli käskinud käia.

¹⁷ Siis ma haarasin need kaks lauda ja viskasin need ära oma käest ning lõin need puruks teie silme ees.

¹⁸ Ja ma heitsin maha Issanda ette, olles nagu eelmiselgi korral nelikümmend päeva ja nelikümmend ööd leiba söömata ja vett joomata kõigi teie pattude pärast, mis te olite teinud, tehes kurja Issanda silmis ja vihastades teda.

¹⁹ Sest ma kartsin seda viha ja raevu, mis Issandat oli vallanud teie vastu, nõnda et ta tahtis teid hävitada. Ja Issand kuulis mind ka veel seekord.

²⁰ Ka Aaroni peale vihastus Issand väga, tahtes teda hävitada, ja ma palusin siis ka Aaroni eest.

²¹ Aga teie patutöö, mille te olite valmistanud, vasika, ma võtsin ja põletasin seda tulega, lõin selle puruks, jahvatasin hästi, kuni see sai peeneks põrmuks, ja viskasin selle põrmu jõkke, mis mäelt alla voolab.

²² Ka Tabeeras ja Massas ja Kibrot-Hattaavas te vihastasite Issandat.

²³ Ja kui Issand teid läkitas Kaades-Barneast, öeldes: 'Minge ja vallutage maa, mille ma teile annan!', siis te panite vastu Issanda, oma Jumala käsule, ei uskunud temasse ega kuulanud ta häält.

²⁴ Te olete olnud Issandale vastupanijad, alates sellest päevast, mil tema teid tunneb.

²⁵ Siis ma heitsin maha Issanda ette neiks neljakümneks päevaks ja neljakümneks ööks, sest Issand oli öelnud, et ta teid hävitab.

²⁶ Ja ma palusin Issandat ning ütlesin: 'Issand Jumal, ära hukka oma rahvast ja oma pärisosa, kelle sa oled lunastanud oma suurusega ja kelle sa tõid Egiptusest välja vägeva käega!

²⁷ Mõtle oma sulastele, Aabrahamile, Iisakile ja Jaakobile, ära pane tähele selle rahva kangust, ta nurjatust ja pattu,

²⁸ et ei öeldaks maal, kust sa meid välja tõid: 'Sellepärast et Issand ei suutnud neid viia sellele maale, mille ta neile oli lubanud, ja et ta neid vihkas, viis ta nad välja, et neid kõrbes surmata!'

²⁹ Ometi on nad ju sinu rahvas ja sinu pärisosa, kelle sa tõid välja oma suure rammuga ja väljasirutatud käsivarrega.'

¹ When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him."

² Aaron said to them, "Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me."

³ All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

⁴ He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, "These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt."

⁵ When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, "Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh."

⁶ They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

⁷ Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!

⁸ They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"

⁹ Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

¹⁰ Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation."

¹¹ Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

¹² Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.

¹³ Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'"

¹⁴ Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.

¹⁵ Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.

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

¹⁷ When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is the noise of war in the camp."

¹⁸ He said, "It isn't the voice of those who shout for victory, neither is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear."

¹⁹ It happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.

²⁰ He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

²¹ Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?"

²² Aaron said, "Don't let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

²³ For they said to me, 'Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.'

²⁴ I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let them take it off:' so they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf."

²⁵ When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies),

²⁶ then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever is on Yahweh's side, come to me!" All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.

²⁷ He said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.'"

²⁸ The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

²⁹ Moses said, "Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, yes, every man against his son, and against his brother; that he may bestow on you a blessing this day."

³⁰ It happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin."

³¹ Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.

³² Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin--and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written."

³³ Yahweh said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.

³⁴ Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin."

³⁵ Yahweh struck the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.