17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a noise of war in the camp.”

18 But he said:

It is not the noise of the shout of victory,
Nor the noise of the cry of defeat,
But the sound of singing I hear.”

19 So it was, as soon as he came near the camp, that (A)he saw the calf and the dancing. So Moses’ anger became hot, and he cast the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.

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(A)They invited the people to (B)the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and (C)bowed down to their gods.

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(A)And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, (B)“The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”

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