Êxodo 32:29

29 Disse então Moisés: “Hoje vocês se consagraram ao SENHOR, pois nenhum de vocês poupou o seu filho e o seu irmão, de modo que o SENHOR os abençoou neste dia”.

Êxodo 32:29 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 32:29

For Moses had said
To the Levites, when he first gave them their orders:

consecrate yourselves today to the Lord;
devote yourselves to his service, by obeying his orders, slaying those, or the heads of them, who have cast so much contempt upon him as to worship the golden calf in his room; and which would be as acceptable to him as the offerings were, by which Aaron and his sons were consecrated to the Lord; and as these Levites were consecrated to his service this day, on this account:

[even] every man upon his son, and upon his brother;
not sparing the nearest relation found in this idolatry, and for which the tribe of Levi is commended and blessed in the blessing of Moses, ( Deuteronomy 33:8 Deuteronomy 33:9 ) and as it follows,

that he may bestow a blessing upon you this day;
which was their being taken into the service of God to minister to the priests in the sanctuary, to bear the vessels of the Lord, and for their maintenance to have the tithes of the people: this day was, according to the Jewish writers ^F19, the seventeenth of Tammuz, or June, on which day the Jews keep a fast upon this account.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 Sedar Olam Rabba, c. 6. p. 18. Pirke Eliezer, c. 46.

Êxodo 32:29 In-Context

27 Declarou-lhes também: “Assim diz o SENHOR, o Deus de Israel: ‘Pegue cada um sua espada, percorra o acampamento, de tenda em tenda, e mate o seu irmão, o seu amigo e o seu vizinho’.”

28 Fizeram os levitas conforme Moisés ordenou, e naquele dia morreram cerca de três mil dentre o povo.

29 Disse então Moisés: “Hoje vocês se consagraram ao SENHOR, pois nenhum de vocês poupou o seu filho e o seu irmão, de modo que o SENHOR os abençoou neste dia”.

30 No dia seguinte Moisés disse ao povo: “Vocês cometeram um grande pecado. Mas agora subirei ao SENHOR e talvez possa oferecer propiciação pelo pecado de vocês”.

31 Assim, Moisés voltou ao SENHOR e disse: “Ah, que grande pecado cometeu este povo! Fizeram para si deuses de ouro.