13 Kemember Abraham, Iaac, and Iſrael thy ſer- vants,to whom thou {weareſt by thy own elf, and ſaidft . unto them, * I will multiply your ſeed as the ftars of Boy 4 : heaven, and all this land that I have ſpoken of, will I rorandag give unto your ſeed, and they ſhall inherit zr for ever. 18: and 14 And the LORD repented & of the evil which he *£4- and thought to do unto his people, —_ "Ws d (7. e.) Changed his Sentence. See on Gen: 6. 6. + Wn 15 And Moſes turned, and went down from the mount, and the rwo tables of the Teſtimony were in his hand : the tables were written on both their ſides e: on the one ſide, and on the other ſide were they written. e Not in the infide and outſide, which is unuſual and unneceſſary, bur in the iniide only, ſome of the Ten Commands being written on the right hand, and others on the left, not for any my1tery, but only for conveniency of writing. * Chap; 16 And the * tables were the work of God, and the 31:18: writing 4: the writing of God, graven upon the tables. 17 And when Joſhua f heard the noiſe of the people as they ſhouted, he ſaid unto Moles, There js a noiſe of war in the camp. | f Who had waited all this while upon the middle of the hi!l for
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[9 And it came to paſs, ailoon as he came nigh un- to the camp, that he faw the calf, and the dancing : and Moſes anger waxed hot, and he caſt the tables out of __ a _ brake them 7 beneath the mount:
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s What injury or miſchief had they done to thee, which thou didſt ſo ſeverely revenge! p The fin of the people js charged upon Aaron, both becauſe he did nor reſiſt and ſuppreſs their wicked ſug- geſtion, Yerſe 1. by his counſel, and by the authority which Moſes had left in his hand, which he fhould have done even with the ha- zard of his life, as the R3bbins ſay that Hur did, : whom they report to have been {lain by the People whilſt he diſſwaded them from their attempt, and becauſe he did not promote, and dire& and manage their enterprize, Yerſe 4, 5-
22 And Aaron ſaid, Let not the anger of my lord
wax hot : thou knoweſt the people, that they are /er on miſchief 4. : q Heb. are in evil, i. e. are altogether wicked, addiQted to, or | bent upon wickedneſs, ſo that it was impoſſible for me to ſtop or © divert their courſe.
23 For they ſaid unto me, Make us gods which (ball £0 before us: ' as for this Moſes, the man that brought
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become of him. 24 AndI faid unto them, Whoſoever hath any gold,
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it into the fire, and there came out this calf 7.
7 Not that he meant, or thought to perſwade Moſes, that the melted Gold came out of the fire in the form of a Calf by accident, without any art or induſtry of his, which was a ridiculous conceit, and eaſily confuted.; but only he conceals his own fin in the forming and graving of it, and lays the whole blame upon the people.
25 «And when Moſes faw that the people were naked s
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proteQtion of God, by which alone they were ſecured from the Egyptians, and were to be defended againſt thoſe many and mighry enemies towards whom they were about to march, and that being thus diſarmed and helpleſs, they would be a prey to every Enemy ; when Moſes conſidered this, he took the following courſe to cover their nakedneſs, to expiate their fins, toregain the favour of God, and by puniſhing the moſt eminent and incorrigible Offenders, to bring the reſt to repentance. ? As Ahazx is ſaid to have made Judah naked, 2 Chron. 28. 19. u Queſt. How were they made naked or aſhamed amongſt their Enemies, when at this time they were in their own Camp, remote from all cheir Enemies ? A»ſw. He ſpeaks not only of