¹When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”

¹Waktu bangsa Israel melihat bahwa Musa lama sekali tidak turun dari gunung, tetapi masih di sana juga, mereka mengerumuni Harun dan berkata kepadanya, "Kita tidak tahu apa yang terjadi dengan Musa, orang yang telah membawa kita keluar dari Mesir; jadi buatlah untuk kami ilah yang akan memimpin kami."

²Aaron said to them, “Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me.”

²Lalu Harun berkata kepada mereka, "Lepaskanlah anting-anting emas yang dipakai istri-istri dan anak-anakmu, dan bawalah kepadaku."

³All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

³Maka mereka melepaskan anting-anting emas masing-masing dan membawanya kepada Harun.

⁴He 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.”

⁴Harun mengambil anting-anting itu, lalu dileburnya dan dituangnya ke dalam sebuah cetakan dan dibuatnya sebuah patung sapi. Bangsa itu berkata, "Hai Israel, inilah ilah kita yang mengantar kita keluar dari Mesir!"

⁵When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh.”

⁵Lalu Harun mendirikan sebuah mezbah di depan sapi emas itu dan mengumumkan, "Besok ada pesta untuk menghormati TUHAN."

⁶They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

⁶Besoknya pagi-pagi sekali, orang-orang Israel membawa beberapa ekor ternak untuk kurban bakaran, dan beberapa ekor lagi untuk kurban perdamaian. Mereka duduk makan dan minum, lalu bangkit untuk bersenang-senang.

⁷Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!

⁷Maka TUHAN berkata kepada Musa, "Turunlah segera, sebab bangsamu yang kaupimpin keluar dari Mesir sudah berbuat jahat.

⁸They 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.’”

⁸Mereka sudah menyimpang dari perintah-perintah-Ku. Mereka membuat patung sapi dari emas tuangan, lalu menyembahnya dan mempersembahkan kurban kepadanya. Kata mereka, itulah ilah mereka yang membawa mereka keluar dari Mesir.

⁹Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

⁹Aku tahu bahwa bangsa itu amat keras kepala.

¹⁰Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation.”

¹⁰Jangan coba menghalangi Aku. Aku marah kepada mereka dan hendak membinasakan mereka. Tapi engkau dan keturunanmu akan Kujadikan suatu bangsa yang besar."

¹¹Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

¹¹Musa memohon kepada TUHAN Allahnya, katanya, "TUHAN, mengapa Engkau harus berbuat begitu kepada mereka? Bukankah Engkau telah menyelamatkan mereka dari Mesir dengan kekuasaan dan kekuatan yang besar?

¹²Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, ‘He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?’ Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.

¹²Kalau Engkau membinasakan mereka, orang Mesir akan berkata bahwa Engkau memimpin bangsa itu keluar dari Mesir untuk membunuh mereka di pegunungan dan membinasakan mereka sama sekali. Janganlah begitu, ya TUHAN, ubahlah niat-Mu dan janganlah mencelakakan bangsa itu.

¹³Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.’”

¹³Ingatlah kepada hamba-hamba-Mu Abraham, Ishak dan Yakub. Ingatlah bahwa Engkau berjanji dengan sumpah untuk memberi mereka keturunan sebanyak bintang di langit, juga bahwa seluruh tanah yang Kaujanjikan itu akan menjadi milik keturunan mereka untuk selama-lamanya."

¹⁴Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.

¹⁴Maka TUHAN mengubah niat-Nya dan tidak jadi melaksanakan ancaman-Nya untuk menimpa bangsa itu dengan malapetaka.

¹⁵Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.

¹⁵Musa turun kembali dari gunung itu membawa kedua batu yang bertuliskan perintah-perintah Allah pada kedua sisinya.

¹⁶The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tables.

¹⁶Allah sendiri telah membuat batu itu dan mengukirkan perintah-perintah-Ny di situ.

¹⁷When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is the noise of war in the camp.”

¹⁷Sementara berjalan turun, Yosua mendengar orang-orang Israel berteriak-teriak, lalu berkatalah ia kepada Musa, "Ada keributan pertempuran di perkemahan."

¹⁸He said, “It isn’t the voice of those who shout for victory, neither is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear.”

¹⁸Kata Musa, "Kedengarannya bukan seperti sorak kemenangan atau teriak kekalahan; itu suara orang bernyanyi."

¹⁹It happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses’ anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.

¹⁹Ketika Musa sudah dekat ke perkemahan itu, dilihatnya sapi emas itu dan orang-orang sedang menari-nari, maka marahlah ia. Di situ juga, di kaki gunung itu, Musa membanting batu yang dibawanya itu sampai hancur berkeping-keping.

²⁰He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

²⁰Kemudian diambilnya patung sapi buatan orang-orang Israel itu, dileburnya, ditumbuknya sampai halus seperti debu, lalu dicampurnya dengan air. Kemudian disuruhnya orang Israel meminumnya.

²¹Moses said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?”

²¹Ia berkata kepada Harun, "Apa yang mereka buat kepadamu sehingga kaubiarkan mereka berdosa besar?"

²²Aaron said, “Don’t let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

²²Jawab Harun, "Jangan marah kepada saya; engkau tahu sendiri bagaimana nekatnya orang-orang ini untuk berbuat jahat.

²³For they said to me, ‘Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’

²³Mereka berkata kepadaku, 'Kita tidak tahu apa yang terjadi dengan Musa, orang yang telah membawa kita keluar dari Mesir; jadi buatlah untuk kami ilah yang dapat memimpin kami.'

²⁴I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them take it off:’ so they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”

²⁴Saya menyuruh mereka menyerahkan perhiasan emas, lalu mereka menyerahkannya kepada saya. Semua perhiasan itu saya masukkan ke dalam api, lalu jadilah sapi ini!"

²⁵When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies),

²⁵Musa menyadari bahwa Harun telah membiarkan bangsa Israel seperti kuda lepas dari kandang, sehingga mereka menjadi bahan tertawaan bagi musuh-musuh mereka.

²⁶then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, “Whoever is on Yahweh’s side, come to me!” All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.

²⁶Maka berdirilah ia di depan pintu gerbang perkemahan dan berteriak, "Siapa yang memihak kepada TUHAN harus datang ke mari!" Maka datanglah suku Lewi mengelilingi Musa,

²⁷He said to them, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.’”

²⁷dan ia berkata kepada mereka, "TUHAN Allah Israel memerintahkan kamu masing-masing untuk mencabut pedangmu dan berjalan melalui perkemahan ini, dari gerbang ini sampai ke gerbang yang lain sambil membunuh saudara-saudara, sahabat-sahabat dan tetangga-tetanggamu."

²⁸The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

²⁸Suku Lewi melakukan perintah itu dan pada hari itu kira-kira tiga ribu orang mati dibunuh.

²⁹Moses said, “Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, yes, every man against his son, and against his brother; that he may bestow on you a blessing this day.”

²⁹Kata Musa kepada suku Lewi, "Hari ini kamu sudah mengkhususkan diri menjadi imam yang melayani TUHAN dengan membunuh anak-anak dan saudara-saudaramu, maka TUHAN memberi berkat-Nya kepadamu."

³⁰It happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin.”

³⁰Besoknya Musa berkata kepada bangsa itu, "Kamu telah melakukan dosa besar. Tetapi sekarang saya akan mendaki gunung itu lagi untuk menghadap TUHAN; mudah-mudahan saya mendapat pengampunan untuk dosamu."

³¹Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.

³¹Lalu Musa pergi lagi menghadap TUHAN dan berkata, "Bangsa itu sudah melakukan dosa besar. Mereka membuat ilah dari emas.

³²Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”

³²Sudilah kiranya mengampuni dosa mereka; kalau tidak, hapuslah nama saya dari buku orang-orang hidup."

³³Yahweh said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.

³³TUHAN menjawab, "Hanya orang-orang yang telah berdosa terhadap-Ku akan Kuhapus namanya dari buku itu.

³⁴Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin.”

³⁴Pergilah sekarang, dan bawalah mereka itu ke tempat yang telah Kusebut kepadamu. Malaikat-Ku akan membimbingmu, tetapi saatnya akan datang orang-orang itu Kuhukum karena dosa-dosa mereka."

³⁵Yahweh struck the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

³⁵Lalu TUHAN mendatangkan bencana kepada orang-orang itu karena mereka memaksa Harun membuat patung sapi emas itu.