“And the Lord said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.”
Then the LORD told me, 'Go down from here at once, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have become corrupt; they have turned away quickly from the way I commanded them and have made a cast idol' — the dramatic descent: Moses must come down from covenant-receiving to find covenant-breaking already in progress. The people's corruption is rapid (the Hebrew maher, quickly), suggesting the ease with which Israel reverts to idolatry.
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