Éxodo 32:23

23 Ellos me dijeron: “Haznos dioses que puedan guiarnos. No sabemos qué le sucedió a ese tipo, Moisés, el que nos trajo aquí desde la tierra de Egipto”.

Éxodo 32:23 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 32:23

For they said unto me, make us gods, which shall go before
us
Which was true, ( Exodus 32:1 ) but then he should have told them, that gods were not to be made; that what were made with hands were no gods, and could not go before them; that the making of any image, similitude, or representation of God, was forbidden by him, as they had lately heard from his own mouth; he should have dissuaded from such idolatry, by showing them the evil nature of the sin, and the ruin they exposed themselves to by it:

for [as for] this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land
of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him;
their words he truly recites, and perhaps might choose the rather to mention them, because they carried in them some reflection on Moses for staying so long in the mount; and as if that contributed much to this affair, and which put the people on forming such a scheme, they concluding he must be dead through famine; or, as the Targum of Jonathan, be burnt with flaming fire from the Lord.

Éxodo 32:23 In-Context

21 Por último, se dirigió a Aarón y le preguntó:
—¿Qué te hizo este pueblo para que lo llevaras a caer en un pecado tan grande?

22 —No te disgustes tanto, mi señor —contestó Aarón—. Tú sabes bien qué mala es esta gente.

23 Ellos me dijeron: “Haznos dioses que puedan guiarnos. No sabemos qué le sucedió a ese tipo, Moisés, el que nos trajo aquí desde la tierra de Egipto”.

24 Así que yo les dije: “Los que tengan joyas de oro, que se las quiten”. Cuando me las trajeron, no hice más que echarlas al fuego, ¡y salió este becerro!

25 Moisés vio que Aarón había permitido que el pueblo se descontrolara por completo y fuera el hazmerreír de sus enemigos.