or worship idols as some of them did. As the Scriptures say,“ The people celebrated with feasting and drinking, and they indulged in pagan revelry.”

也不要拜偶像，像他们有人拜的。如经上所记：“百姓坐下吃喝，起来玩耍。”

也不要拜偶像，像他们中有些人曾经拜过。如经上所记：“百姓坐下吃喝，起来玩乐。”

也不要拜偶像，像他们中有些人曾经拜过。如经上所记：“百姓坐下吃喝，起来玩乐。”

也不要像他们当中的人那样去祭拜偶像，正如圣经上说：“百姓坐下吃喝，起来狂欢。”

你们也不可拜偶像，像他们有些人那样；正如经上所记：“人民坐下吃喝，起来玩乐。”

你们也不可像他们中的有些人那样，成为拜偶像的，正如经上所记：“民众坐下吃喝，起来玩乐。”

也不要拜偶像，像他們有人拜的。如經上所記：「百姓坐下吃喝，起來玩耍。」

也不要拜偶像，像他們中有些人曾經拜過。如經上所記：「百姓坐下吃喝，起來玩樂。」

也不要拜偶像，像他們中有些人曾經拜過。如經上所記：「百姓坐下吃喝，起來玩樂。」

也不要像他們當中的人那樣去祭拜偶像，正如聖經上說：「百姓坐下吃喝，起來狂歡。」

你們也不可拜偶像，像他們有些人那樣；正如經上所記：“人民坐下吃喝，起來玩樂。”

你們也不要做拜偶像的，像他們有人、如經上所記『人民坐下喫喝，起來遊戲』那樣。

你們也不可像他們中的有些人那樣，成為拜偶像的，正如經上所記：「民眾坐下吃喝，起來玩樂。」

勿拜像、如彼有拜之者、如經云、民坐而飲食、起而嬉戲、

勿效彼拜偶像、經云、民坐而飲食、起而舞蹈、

亦勿拜偶像、如彼中有人拜者、經載云、民坐而飲食、起而蹈舞、

毋敢崇拜偶像、如若輩中所為者。經云：『民眾坐而飲食、起而荒嬉、』此之謂也。

Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written:“ The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”

So don’t worship statues of gods, as some of them did. It is written,“ The people sat down to eat and drink. Then they got up to dance wildly in front of their god.”( Exodus 32:6)

Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written,“ The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.”

Don’t become idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to party.

Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written:“ The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.”

And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written,“ The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”

Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

Don’t become idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to play.

Neither be ye idolaters, as[ were] some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

So do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written,“ The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.”

Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written,“ The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”

The people got up early the next morning to sacrifice burnt offerings and peace offerings. After this, they celebrated with feasting and drinking, and they indulged in pagan revelry.The Lord told Moses,“ Quick! Go down the mountain! Your people whom you brought from the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves.How quickly they have turned away from the way I commanded them to live! They have melted down gold and made a calf, and they have bowed down and sacrificed to it. They are saying,‘ These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”

The people made a calf at Mount Sinai; they bowed before an image made of gold.They traded their glorious God for a statue of a grass eating bull.

Then the Lord said to me,‘ Get up! Go down immediately, for the people you brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned away from the way I commanded them to live! They have melted gold and made an idol for themselves!’

Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality,

I meant that you are not to associate with anyone who claims to be a believer yet indulges in sexual sin, or is greedy, or worships idols, or is abusive, or is a drunkard, or cheats people. Don’t even eat with such people.

There below me I could see that you had sinned against the Lord your God. You had melted gold and made a calf idol for yourselves. How quickly you had turned away from the path the Lord had commanded you to follow!So I took the stone tablets and threw them to the ground, smashing them before your eyes.“ Then, as before, I threw myself down before the Lord for forty days and nights. I ate no bread and drank no water because of the great sin you had committed by doing what the Lord hated, provoking him to anger.I feared that the furious anger of the Lord, which turned him against you, would drive him to destroy you. But again he listened to me.The Lord was so angry with Aaron that he wanted to destroy him, too. But I prayed for Aaron, and the Lord spared him.I took your sin— the calf you had made— and I melted it down in the fire and ground it into fine dust. Then I threw the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.

So, my dear friends, flee from the worship of idols.

When Joshua heard the boisterous noise of the people shouting below them, he exclaimed to Moses,“ It sounds like war in the camp!”

Then Aaron took the gold, melted it down, and molded it into the shape of a calf. When the people saw it, they exclaimed,“ O Israel, these are the gods who brought you out of the land of Egypt!”

When they came near the camp, Moses saw the calf and the dancing, and he burned with anger. He threw the stone tablets to the ground, smashing them at the foot of the mountain.

Dear brothers and sisters, don’t be childish in your understanding of these things. Be innocent as babies when it comes to evil, but be mature in understanding matters of this kind.It is written in the Scriptures:“ I will speak to my own people through strange languages and through the lips of foreigners. But even then, they will not listen to me,” says the Lord.So you see that speaking in tongues is a sign, not for believers, but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is for the benefit of believers, not unbelievers.

However, not all believers know this. Some are accustomed to thinking of idols as being real, so when they eat food that has been offered to idols, they think of it as the worship of real gods, and their weak consciences are violated.