And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Les enfants de Lévi firent ce qu'ordonnait Moïse; et environ trois mille hommes parmi le peuple périrent en cette journée.
KJV
And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
Philo Judaeus
De Specialibus Legibus (lib. i‑iv)
κατέγνω. 3 τέσσαρες πρὸς ταῖς εἴκοσι χιλιάδες: de vit. Mos. § 172 ἀναιροῦσιν ἡβηδὸν εἰς τρισχιλίους (Exod. 32,28). μὲν τὴν κατὰ πόθον καὶ ζῆλον ἀρετῆς, οὐ ψεκτὴν δὲ τὴν ἀκούσιον. ἥδε μὲν αἰτία προτέρα λελέχθω, δευτέραν δ’ αὐτίκα μηνυτέον· βούλεται ὁ νόμος τὸν ἀκουσίως ἀποκτείναντ…
Lucifer of Cagliari
Book on Not Sparing Those Who Sin Against God
today, for each of you was against his own son and brother, and the Lord has blessed you this day" (Exodus 32:26-29). We are insolent to you just as Moses was to that stubborn people. They did not like what Moses said or did when they had already chosen not to serve the God who h…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
poral punishment on them, since "there were slain on that day about three and twenty thousand men" ( Ex. 32:28 ), and threatened them with punishment in the life to come, saying, ( Ex. 32:34 ): "I, in the day of revenge, will visit this sin . . . of theirs." Secondly, this may be…
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