Éxodo 32:29

29 Entonces Moisés les dijo a los levitas: «Hoy se consagraron a sí mismos
para el servicio del Señor
, porque lo obedecieron aun cuando tuvieron que matar a sus propios hijos y hermanos. Hoy se ganaron una bendición».

Éxodo 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.

Éxodo 32:29 In-Context

27 Moisés les dijo: «Esto dice el Señor
, Dios de Israel: “Cada uno de ustedes tome su espada, recorra el campamento de un extremo al otro; maten a todos, incluso a sus hermanos, amigos y vecinos”».

28 Entonces los levitas obedecieron la orden de Moisés, y ese día murieron unas tres mil personas.

29 Entonces Moisés les dijo a los levitas: «Hoy se consagraron a sí mismos
para el servicio del Señor
, porque lo obedecieron aun cuando tuvieron que matar a sus propios hijos y hermanos. Hoy se ganaron una bendición».

30 Moisés intercede por Israel
Al día siguiente, Moisés les dijo a los israelitas: «Ustedes cometieron un terrible pecado, pero yo subiré de nuevo al monte a encontrarme con el Señor
. Quizá pueda lograr que él les perdone
este pecado».

31 Entonces Moisés volvió a donde estaba el Señor
y dijo:
—Qué terrible pecado cometió este pueblo; se hicieron dioses de oro.