Exodus Chapter 32 — The Golden Calf Quiz Flashcards

#1

How long was Moses on Mount Sinai receiving the law from God before the Israelites made the golden calf?

📖 Exodus 32:1

#2

What did the Israelites ask Aaron to make for them while Moses was on Mount Sinai?

📖 Exodus 32:1-4

#3

What did Aaron do with the gold the Israelites gave him to make the golden calf?

📖 Exodus 32:4

#4

What did Aaron declare after completing the golden calf?

📖 Exodus 32:5

#5

What did God tell Moses was happening in the camp while he was on Mount Sinai?

📖 Exodus 32:7-8

#6

What did Moses do with the two stone tablets when he saw the Israelites dancing around the golden calf?

📖 Exodus 32:19

#7

What did Moses do to the golden calf after he took it from the people?

📖 Exodus 32:20

#8

What did Moses say to Aaron when he confronted him about making the golden calf?

📖 Exodus 32:21

#2

A golden calf to be their god

In Exodus 32:1, the Israelites said to Aaron, 'Come, make us gods who will go before us,' and they gave him gold to fashion into a calf.

Exodus 32:1-4

#1

Forty days and forty nights

Exodus 32:1 states that when the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered to Aaron, and the text indicates this was after the lengthy period described in Exodus 24:18 of forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 32:1

#4

Tomorrow there will be a festival to the Lord

Exodus 32:5 records Aaron's declaration: 'When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the calf and announced, "Tomorrow there will be a festival to the Lord."'

Exodus 32:5

#3

He took it and fashioned it into a calf with an engraving tool

Exodus 32:4 states, 'He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool.'

Exodus 32:4

#6

He broke them at the base of the mountain

Exodus 32:19 describes Moses' reaction: 'When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the base of the mountain.'

Exodus 32:19

#5

All of the above

Exodus 32:7-8 records God telling Moses that the people 'have corrupted themselves' and 'have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf,' and verse 18 mentions they were singing and dancing before it.

Exodus 32:7-8

#8

What did these people do to you that you led them into such great sin?

Exodus 32:21 records Moses' confrontation: 'He said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you led them into such great sin?"'

Exodus 32:21

#7

He burned it in the fire and ground it to powder, then scattered it in water

Exodus 32:20 states, 'And he took the calf the people had made and burned it in the fire; then he ground it to powder, scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it.'

Exodus 32:20

#9

How many Israelites died as a result of their sin with the golden calf according to Exodus 32?

📖 Exodus 32:28

#10

What did Moses ask God after the plague, saying he would rather be blotted out of God's book?

📖 Exodus 32:32

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#10

That God would forgive the people's sin

Exodus 32:32 records Moses' intercession: 'But now, please forgive their sin—but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written.' Moses was requesting God's forgiveness for the people's idolatry.

Exodus 32:32

#9

Three thousand men

Exodus 32:28 states that the Levites 'did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died.'

Exodus 32:28

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