In this video listen to Exodus 32 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer.

In Exodus 32 the biggest thing that must be observed is that Elohim is the translation for the golden calf. The Israelites think they are worshipping the same God that Moses talked about. In verse 5 after making the calf, Aaron says “tomorrow we celebrate a feast to Yahweh.” They then begin to “play” which is actually practice sexual immorality like the fertility cults and 23000 of them (1 Cor 10:7-8) commit adultery. The KJV better translates in verse 25 that the people were naked.

The Israelites had been removed from Egypt, but here we see that Egyptian thinking was still in them. They saw their leader as a god and with Moses apparently dead, they needed God back. This futile and strange thinking wasn’t cured out of them until the exile and the d ...