“And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.”
So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings. Afterward they sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry. The festival proceeds with the full vocabulary of legitimate worship — burnt offerings, fellowship offerings, eating and drinking — but directed at the calf. Paul quotes this verse in 1 Corinthians 10:7 as a direct warning to the church: do not be idolaters, as some of them were. The eating, drinking, and revelry of the golden calf celebration is the paradigm of the idolatrous community meal Paul warns against. The same acts produce covenant fellowship or covenant violation depending entirely on their object.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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