Exodus 32:15-24,30-34
Psalms 106:19-23
Matthew 13:31-35
Exodus 32:15-24,30-34
(15) Moses 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. (16) The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets. (17) When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is the noise of war in the camp.” (18) He said, “It isn’t the voice of those who shout for victory. It is not the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear.” (19) As soon as he came near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. Then Moses’ anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain. (20) He took the calf which they had made, and burned it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink it. (21) Moses said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?” (22) Aaron said, “Don’t let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil. (23) For they said to me, ‘Make us gods, which shall go before us. 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.’ (24) I 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.” (30) On the next day, 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.” (31) Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold. (32) Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.” (33) Yahweh said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. (34) Now 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.”
Psalms 106:19-23
(19) They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped a molten image. (20) Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass. (21) They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt, (22) Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by the Red Sea. (23) Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.
Matthew 13:31-35
(31) He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field; (32) which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.” (33) He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.” (34) Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them, (35) that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”
