King James Version
Exodus 32:21 in the King James Version says “And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 32 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?”
Exodus 32:21 · KJV
And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.
For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“this people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“unto thee that thou hast brought”
H935to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
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