Exodus 32:22
Good News Translation
Aaron answered, "Don't be angry with me; you know how determined these people are to do evil.

New Revised Standard Version
And Aaron said, “Do not let the anger of my lord burn hot; you know the people, that they are bent on evil.

Contemporary English Version
Aaron answered: Don't be angry with me. You know as well as I do that they are determined to do evil.

New American Bible
Aaron replied, “Do not let my lord be angry. You know how the people are prone to evil.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he answered him: Let not my lord be offended; for thou knowest this people, that they are prone to evil.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he answered him: Let not my lord be offended; for thou knowest this people, that they are prone to evil.

knowest

Exodus 14:11 And they said to Moses: Perhaps there were no graves in Egypt, therefore thou hast brought us to die in the wilderness: why wouldst thou do this, to lead us out of Egypt?

Exodus 15:24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying: What shall we drink?

Exodus 16:2-4,20,28 And all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. . . .

Exodus 17:2-4 And they chode with Moses, and said: Give us water, that we may drink. And Moses answered them: Why chide you with me? Wherefore do you tempt the Lord? . . .

Deuteronomy 9:7,24 Remember, and forget not how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that thou camest out of Egypt unto this place, thou hast always strove against the Lord. . . .

that they are

Deuteronomy 31:27 For I know thy obstinacy, and thy most stiff neck. While I am yet living, and going in with you, you have always been rebellious against the Lord: how much more when I shall be dead?

1 Samuel 15:24 And Saul said to Samuel: I have sinned, because I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and thy words, fearing the people, and obeying their voice.

Psalm 36:4 He hath devised iniquity on his bed, he hath set himself on every way that is not good: but evil he hath not hated.

Proverbs 4:16 They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity.

Context
Moses Breaks the Tablets
21And he said to Aaron: What has this people done to thee, that thou shouldst bring upon them a most heinous sin? 22And he answered him: Let not my lord be offended; for thou knowest this people, that they are prone to evil.23They said to me: make us gods, that may go before us; for as to this Moses, who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is befallen him.…
Cross References
Genesis 44:18
Then Juda coming nearer, said boldly: I beseech thee, my lord, let thy servant speak a word in thy ears, and be not angry with thy servant: for after Pharao thou art.

Exodus 32:21
And he said to Aaron: What has this people done to thee, that thou shouldst bring upon them a most heinous sin?

Deuteronomy 9:24
But were always rebellious from the day that I began to know you.

1 Samuel 15:15
And Saul said: They have brought them from Amalec: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the herds, that they might be sacrificed to the Lord thy God, but the rest we have slain.

1 Samuel 15:21
But the people took of the spoils, sheep and oxen, as the firstfruits of those things that were slain, to offer sacrifice to the Lord their God in Galgal.

Exodus 32:21
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