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Exodus 32:18

World English Bible

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.”

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Exodus 32:18 in other translations

And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome; but the noise of them that sing do I hear.

Exodus 32:18 · American Standard Version

Exodus 32:18 in context

  1. 16The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
  2. 17When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is the noise of war in the camp.”
  3. 18He 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.”
  4. 19As 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.
  5. 20He 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.