Exode 32:35

35 Ainsi l'Éternel frappa le peuple, parce qu'il avait été l'auteur du veau qu'avait fait Aaron.

Exode 32:35 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 32:35

And the Lord plagued the people
That is, continued so to do at certain times, with the pestilence, or other calamities; for this seems not to refer, as some think, to the slaughter of the 3000 men: the reason follows,

because they made the calf which Aaron made;
that is, they provided him with materials to make it; they urged and solicited him to do it, and would not be easy without it, so that the making of it is ascribed to them; or they served it, as Onkelos; or bowed unto it, as Jonathan; with which agree the Syriac, Arabic, and Samaritan versions, which render it, they served, or worshipped, or sacrificed to the calf which Aaron made.

Exode 32:35 In-Context

33 Et l'Éternel répondit à Moïse: Celui qui aura péché contre moi, je l'effacerai de mon livre.
34 Et maintenant, va, conduis le peuple où je t'ai dit. Voici, mon ange ira devant toi; mais, au jour où j'exercerai la punition, je punirai sur eux leur péché.
35 Ainsi l'Éternel frappa le peuple, parce qu'il avait été l'auteur du veau qu'avait fait Aaron.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.