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Exodus 32:8

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 32:8 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"
  • King James Version Public Domain
    They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    They have quickly turned from the way that I commanded them. They have made a calf of molten metal for themselves and have bowed before it and sacrificed to it. And they have said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, that brought you up from the land of Egypt.’”

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”
  • King James Version Public Domain
    They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed unto it, and said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed unto it, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    They are soone turned out of the way, which I commanded them: for they haue made them a molten calfe and haue worshipped it, and haue offered thereto, saying, These be thy gods, O Israel, which haue brought thee out of the lande of Egypt.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    They have quickly strayed from the way which thou didst shew them: and they have made to themselves a molten calf, and have adored it, and sacrificing victims to it, have said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    they have turned aside hastily from the way that I have commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten calf, and bow themselves to it, and sacrifice to it, and say, These thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.'
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    they have quickly turned aside from the way that I have commanded them; they have made a molten calf for themselves, and bow themselves to it, and sacrifice to it, and say, These [are] your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    They have quickly left the way that I commanded them. They have molded for themselves a calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it. They have said, 'Israel, this is your god who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'”
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    They have quickly turned from the way that I commanded them. They have made a calf of molten metal for themselves and have bowed before it and sacrificed to it. And they have said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, that brought you up from the land of Egypt.’”
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them: they have made themselves a molten calf, and have bowed down to it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, This is thy god, Israel, who has brought thee up out of the land of Egypt!
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    They have turned away quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    They have turned aside quickly from the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    They have been so quick to abandon the way I ordered them to follow. They have made a metal bull calf idol for themselves, bowing before it in worship and offering sacrifices to it. They're saying, ‘These are the gods that brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    Even now they are turned away from the rule I gave them, and have made themselves a metal ox and given worship to it and offerings, saying, This is your god, O Israel, who took you up out of the land of Egypt.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed unto it, and said: This is thy god, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.'

Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).

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מַהֵ֗ר
mahêr
H4118
“swift”
Verb, Piel, Infinitive Absolute
Part of Speech
Verb
Stem
Piel
Form
Infinitive Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H4116

TWOT: 1152a , 1152b

hurrying, speedy, swift, hastening (adjective) - quickly, speedily (adverb)
  1. סָ֣רוּ çûwr H5493 “to turn aside” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural
  2. מִן min H4480 “from” Preposition
  3. הַדֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ derek H1870 “the · way” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
  4. אֲשֶׁ֣ר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  5. צִוִּיתִ֔ם tsâvâh H6680 “to command · them” Verb, Piel, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  6. עָשׂ֣וּ ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural
  8. עֵ֖גֶל ʻêgel H5695 “calf” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  9. מַסֵּכָ֑ה maççêkâh H4541 “molten image” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  10. וַיִּשְׁתַּֽחֲווּ shâchâh H7812 “and · to bow down” Conjunction + Verb, Hithpael, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  12. וַיִּזְבְּחוּ zâbach H2076 “and · to sacrifice” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  14. וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ ʼâmar H559 “and · to say” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  15. אֵ֤לֶּה ʼêl-leh H428 “these” Pronoun, Demonstrative, Common, Plural
  16. אֱלֹהֶ֨יךָ֙ ʼĕlôhîym H430 “God(s) · your” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  17. יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל Yisrâʼêl H3478 “Israel” Noun, Proper
  18. אֲשֶׁ֥ר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  19. הֶֽעֱל֖וּךָ ʻâlâh H5927 “to go up · you” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  20. מֵאֶ֥רֶץ ʼerets H776 “from · land of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct
  21. מִצְרָֽיִם Mitsrayim H4714 “Egypt” Noun, Proper

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

22
words
18
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is מַהֵ֗ר swift H4118 — appearing just 18 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

  • מַהֵ֗ר swift H4118

Shared distinctive vocabulary

מַהֵ֗ר swift H4118 occurs in 17 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 8 verbs
  • 7 nouns
  • 1 pronoun
  • 4 prepositions
  • 2 particles

Verb forms

  • סָ֣רוּ Qal · Perfect
  • מַהֵ֗ר Piel · Infinitive Absolute
  • צִוִּיתִ֔ם Piel · Perfect
  • עָשׂ֣וּ Qal · Perfect
  • וַיִּשְׁתַּֽחֲווּ Hithpael · Sequential Imperfect
  • וַיִּזְבְּחוּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • הֶֽעֱל֖וּךָ Hiphil · Perfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • אֲשֶׁ֣ר which H834 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 46 words from the Hebrew and 27 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter here. See the side-by-side →

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 22 Hebrew tokens and 30 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

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Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Exodus 32:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Exodus 20:3–4 You shall have no other gods before me.
  • Exodus 20:23 You shall most certainly not make alongside of me gods of silver, or gods of gold for yourselves.
  • 1 Kings 12:28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: see your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
  • Deuteronomy 9:16 I looked, and, behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God; you had made you a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly out of the way which Yahweh had commanded you.
  • Exodus 22:20 "He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, shall be utterly destroyed.
  • Judges 2:17 Yet they didn't listen to their judges; for they played the prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Yahweh; [but] they didn't do so.
  • Exodus 32:4 He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, "These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt."

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

Here the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 27 words vs World English Bible 46. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Exodus 32:8 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

סָ֣רוּ מַהֵ֗ר מִן הַדֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר צִוִּיתִ֔ם עָשׂ֣וּ לָהֶ֔ם עֵ֖גֶל מַסֵּכָ֑ה וַיִּשְׁתַּֽחֲווּ לוֹ֙ וַיִּזְבְּחוּ ל֔וֹ וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ אֵ֤לֶּה אֱלֹהֶ֨יךָ֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר הֶֽעֱל֖וּךָ מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם

They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Exodus 32:8 Septuagint · lemma form

παραβαίνω ταχύς ἐκ ὁ ὁδός ὅς ἐντέλλομαι αὐτός ποιέω ἑαυτοῦ μόσχος καί προςκυνέω αὐτός καί θύω αὐτός καί εἶπον οὗτος ὁ θεός σύ ἰσραήλ ὅστις ἀναβιβάζω σύ ἐκ γῆ αἴγυπτος

they have quickly gone out of the way which you commanded; they have made for themselves a calf, and worshipped it, and sacrificed to it, and said,

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    סָטוּ בִּפְרִיעַ מִן אוֹרְחָא דִי פַקֶדְתִּנוּן עֲבָדוּ לְהוֹן עֵגֶל מַתְּכָא וּסְגִידוּ לֵהּ וְדַבָּחוּ לֵהּ וַאֲמָרוּ אִלֵין דַחַלְתָּךְ יִשְׂרָאֵל דִי אַסְקוּךְ מֵאַרְעָא דְמִצְרָיִם:

    (no public-domain English translation for this verse)

    Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    סָטוּ בִּפְרִיעַ מִן אוֹרְחָא דְפַקֵידְתִּינוּן בְּסִינַי לָא תַעַבְּדוּן לְכוֹן צְלַם וְצוּרָה וְכָל דְּמוּ וּכְדוֹן עָבְדוּ לְהוֹן עֵיגַל מַתְּכָא וּסְגִידוּ לֵיהּ וְדַבְּחוּ לֵיהּ וְאַכְרִיזוּ קֳדָמוֹי אִלֵּין דַּחַלְתָּךְ יִשְרָאֵל דְאַסְקוּךְ מֵאַרְעָא דְמִצְרָיִם

    quickly have they declined from the way which I taught them in Sinai, (that) ye shall not make yourselves image, or figure, or any similitude; for now have they made to them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and sacrificed to it, and proclaimed before it, These are thy gods, Israel, which brought thee up from the land of Mizraim.

    Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Exodus 32:8 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Exo 32:8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These [be] thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

Ver. 8. They have turned aside quickly.] Moses’s back was but newly turned, as it were. "I marvel that you are so soon removed," &c. {Gal 1:6} {See Trapp on "Gal 1:6"} When we have spent all our wind on our people, their hearts will be still apt to be "carried away with every wind of doctrine," - in our absence especially.

“Mures, fele absente, choreas ducunt.” - Suidas.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Joseph Benson's Commentary

Exo 32:8. They have turned aside quickly — Quickly after the law was given them, and they had promised to obey it; quickly after God had done such great things for them, and declared his kind intentions to do greater.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Whereby we see what necessity we have to pray earnestly to God, to keep us in his true obedience, and to send us good guides.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(8) These be thy gods.—Rather, This is thy god, as in Exo_32:4.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

8. the way, &c.] See Exo_20:4; Exo_20:23.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them,.... The Targum of Jonathan adds, by way of explanation,"on Sinai, saying, ye shall not make to yourselves an image, or figure, or any similitude.''This was the command God had given to them; this the way he had directed them to walk in; from this they turned aside, by making the golden calf as an image or representation of God; and this they had done very quickly, since it was but about six weeks ago that this command was given; wherefore if Moses had delayed coming down from the mount, they had made haste to commit iniquity; and, perhaps, this observation is made of their quick defection, in opposition to their complaint of Moses's long absence:

they have made them a molten calf; for though it was made by Aaron, or by his direction to the founder or goldsmith, yet it was at their request and earnest solicitation; they would not be easy without it:

and have worshipped it; by bowing the knee to it, kissing it or their hands at the approach of it, see Hos 13:2.

and have sacrificed thereunto burnt offerings and peace offerings:

and said, these be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt; the very words they used, Exo 32:4 and which were taken particular notice of by the Lord with resentment.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Pulpit Commentary

They have turned aside quickly. A few weeks have sufficed to make them forget their solemn pledges, (Exo_19:8 Exo_24:3) and fly in the face of a plain unmistakable commandment. A molten calf. In the contemptuous language of Holy Scripture when speaking of idols, such an emblematic figure as the Babylonion man-bull would be a mere "calf." That the figure made by Aaron is called always "a molten calf literally, "a calf of fusion disposes of the theory of Keil, that it was of carved wood covered with gold plates hammered on to it. These be thy gods, which have brought thee. Rather, "This is thy god, which has brought thee." The plural must be regarded as merely one of dignity.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

They have turned aside quickly - Quickly after the law was given them, and they had promised to obey it; quickly after God had done such great things for them, and declared his kind intentions to do greater.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 22 words (18 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mahêr (“swift”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word mahêr carries the sense “swift.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. This is the first place “swift” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
  3. How does Deuteronomy 4:26, which shares the word «swift», read alongside this verse?
  4. What does the repetition of “which” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  5. The Septuagint runs shorter here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
  6. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  7. «סָ֣רוּ» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  8. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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