22"Do not be angry, my lord," Aaron answered. "You know how prone these people are to evil.


In Context

19 When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain.

20 And he took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire; then he ground it to powder, scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it.

21 He said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you led them into such great sin?"

22 "Do not be angry, my lord," Aaron answered. "You know how prone these people are to evil.

23 They said to me, 'Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don't know what has happened to him.'

24 So I told them, 'Whoever has any gold jewelry, take it off.' Then they gave me the gold, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf!"

Exodus 32:22 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

32:22And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are [set] on mischief.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

32:22And he answered him: Let not my lord be offended: for thou knowest this people, that they are prone to evil.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

32:22And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are'set on evil.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

32:22And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord burn! thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

32:22And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on evil.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

32:22And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people that they are set on mischief.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

32:22Aaron said, |Don't let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

32:22and Aaron saith, 'Let not the anger of my lord burn; thou — thou hast known the people that it is in evil;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

32:22And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: you know the people, that they are set on mischief.