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AndוַYHWHיְהוָהspokeיְדַבֵּרto Moses,אֶל מֹשֶׁה“Go,לֶךְgo down,רֵדforכִּיyour people,עַמְּךָwhomאֲשֶׁרyou brought upהֶעֱלֵיתָout of the landמֵאֶרֶץof Egypt,מִצְרָיִםhave acted corruptly.שִׁחֵת
Exodus 32:7
Study it in the app“And YHWH spoke to Moses, “Go, go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Exodus 32:7, word by word
- YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears- spokeיְדַבֵּרyedaber
speak
To speak, say something; above all God to his people.
Where else “yedaber” appears- to Mosesמֹשֶׁהmoshe
Moses
Moses, the man God called to bring Israel out of Egypt and through whom he gave the Law. His name sounds like "draw out" (Exodus 2:10).
Where else “moshe” appears- “Goלֶךְlech
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “lech” appears- go downרֵדred
go down
To go from a higher place to a lower one, like from the mountain to the valley.
Where else “red” appears- your peopleעַמְּam
Ammi
Israel, YHWH's people: "my people".
Where else “am” appears- you brought upהֶעֱלֵיתָheeleta
bring up
To make someone go up: "I led you up from Egypt".
Where else “heeleta” appears- out of the landאֶרֶץerets
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appears- of Egyptמִצְרָיִםmitsrayim
Egypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayim” appears- have acted corruptlyשִׁחֵתshichet
corrupt
To spoil: to stop being useful, or to turn from good and become wicked.
Where else “shichet” appears
Places in this verse
Egypt
Today: Egypt (Nile Valley)
A country in northeast Africa along the Nile River, southwest of Israel.
Joseph was sold into it, and his family went down to live there (Gen 37:28; 46:6). God brought Israel out of it with a mighty hand (Exod 12:41). The child Jesus fled there with his parents (Matt 2:14).
The context
6And they rose early on the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.
7 · This verse (above)
8They have turned aside quickly from the way that I commanded them; they have made for themselves a calf of cast metal and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’”