Ex 32:1 When Moses didn't come back down the mountain right away, the people went to Aaron. "Look," they said, "make us a god to lead us, for this fellow Moses who brought us here from Egypt has disappeared; something must have happened to him." 2 "Give me your gold earrings," Aaron replied. ...So they all did-men and women, boys and girls. 4 Aaron melted the gold, then molded and tooled it into the form of a calf. The people exclaimed, "O Israel, this is the god that brought you out of Egypt!"
5 When Aaron saw how happy the people were about it, he built an altar before the calf and announced, "Tomorrow there will be a feast to Jehovah!"
6 So they were up early the next morning and began offering burnt offerings and peace offerings to the calf-idol; afterwards they sat down to feast and drink at a wild party, followed by sexual immorality.
7 Then the Lord told Moses, "Quick! Go on down, for your people that you brought from Egypt have defiled themselves, 8 and have quickly abandoned all my laws. They have molded themselves a calf, and worshiped it, and sacrificed to it, and said, 'This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of Egypt.'" TLB
Ex 32:21 Then he turned to Aaron. "What in the world did the people do to you," he demanded, "to make you bring such a terrible sin upon them?"
22 "Don't get so upset," Aaron replied. "You know these people and what a wicked bunch they are. 23 They said to me, 'Make us a god to lead us, for something has happened to this fellow Moses who led us out of Egypt.'

Ex 32:25 Moses saw that the people were running wild and that Aaron had let them get out of control and so become a laughingstock to their enemies. 26 So he stood at the entrance to the camp and said, "Whoever is for the  LORD, come to me." And all the Levites rallied to him. 27 Then he said to them, "This  is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.'" 28 The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died. 29 Then Moses said, "You have been set apart to the LORD today, for you were against your own sons and brothers, and he has blessed you this day." NIV

1 Cor 10:3 He was there with them as a mighty Rock of spiritual refreshment. 5 Yet after all this most of them did not obey God, and he destroyed them in the wilderness. 6 From this lesson we are warned that we must not desire evil things as they did, 7 nor worship idols as they did. (The Scriptures tell us, "The people sat down to eat and drink and then got up to dance" in worship of the golden calf.)  TLB
Ps 106:19 For they preferred a statue of an ox that eats grass to the glorious presence of God himself. TLB
Ezek 33:30 "Son of dust, your people are whispering behind your back. They talk about you in their houses and whisper about you at the doors, saying, 'Come on, let's have some fun! Let's go hear him tell us what the Lord is saying!' 31 So they come as though they are sincere and sit before you listening. But they have no intention of doing what I tell them to; they talk very sweetly about loving the Lord, but with their hearts they are loving their money. (Shas) 32 You are very entertaining to them, like someone who sings lovely songs with a beautiful voice or plays well on an instrument. They hear what you say but don't pay any attention to it!
Ezek 33:33 But when all these terrible things happen to them-as they will-then they will know a prophet has been among them." TLB

Mic 2:11 If a liar and deceiver comes and says, 'I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,' he would be just the prophet for this people! NIV

WhitewashersIsa 65:11 "But you who forsake the LORD, Who forget My holy mountain, Who set a table for Fortune, And who fill cups with mixed wine for Destiny, 12 I will destine you for the sword, And all of you will bow down to the slaughter. NASU
Ezek 13:17 "Likewise, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; prophesy against them, 18 and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Woe to the women who sew magic charms on their sleeves and make veils for the heads of people of every height to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of My people, and keep yourselves alive? 19 And will you profane Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, killing people who should not die, and keeping people alive who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies?" NKJV
DisinformationJosh 2:8 Rahab went up to talk to the men before they retired for the night. 9 "I know perfectly well that your God is going to give my country to you," she told them. "We are all afraid of you; everyone is terrified if the word Israel is even mentioned.
10 For we have heard how the Lord made a path through the Red Sea for you when you left Egypt! And we know what you did to Sihon and Og, the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan, and how you ruined their land and completely destroyed their people. 11 No wonder we are afraid of you! No one has any fight left in him after hearing things like that, for your God is the supreme God of heaven, not just an ordinary god.TLB In other words, Israel could have taken the land 40 yrs earlier because they were feared due to things that had then already happened. It shows the curse of democracy and disinformation  
BirthrightGen 25:29 One day Jacob was cooking stew when Esau arrived home exhausted from the hunt. 30 Esau: "Boy, am I starved! Give me a bite of that red stuff there!" (From this came his nickname "Edom," which means "Red Stuff.")
31 Jacob: "All right, trade me your birthright for it!" 32 Esau: "When a man is dying of starvation, what good is his birthright?" 33 Jacob: "Well then, vow to God that it is mine!" And Esau vowed, thereby selling all his eldest-son rights to his younger brother. 34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread, peas, and stew; so he ate and drank and went on about his business, indifferent to the loss of the rights he had thrown away. TLB
AlyahReturn before it's too lateEzek 20:38 And the others-the rebels and all those who sin against me-I will purge from among you. They shall not enter Israel, but I will bring them out of the countries where they are in exile. And when that happens, you will know I am the Lord. TLB
See also Return_settle Study: "return" means "repent"
God's Honor>Ezek 36:22 "Therefore say to the people of Israel, 'The Lord God says: I am bringing you back again, but not because you deserve it; I am doing it to protect my holy name, which you tarnished among the nations. 23 I will honor my great name, that you defiled, and the people of the world shall know I am the Lord. I will be honored before their eyes by delivering you from exile among them. 24 For I will bring you back home again to the land of Israel. TLB

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MosesEx 4:24 As Moses and his family were traveling along and had stopped for the night, Jehovah appeared to Moses and threatened to kill him. 25 Then Zipporah his wife took a flint knife and cut off the foreskin of her young son's penis, and threw it against Moses' feet, remarking disgustedly, "What a blood-smeared husband you've turned out to be!" Then God let him alone. [Shows  that Moses was still a non-conformist at the time - his  marrying a black woman,  does therefore, not set a new standard for Jews to marry into other nations. This was before Moses was taught by God after he had left Egypt with the Israelites]
27 Now Jehovah said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." So Aaron traveled to Mount Horeb, the mountain of God, and met Moses there, and they greeted each other warmly. TLB
Psalms 78:9 The warriors of Ephraim, though fully armed, turned their backs and fled when the day of battle came. 10 They did not keep God's covenant, and they refused to live by his law. 11 They forgot what he had done--the wonderful miracles he had shown them, 12 the miracles he did for their ancestors in Egypt, on the plain of Zoan. ...17 Yet they kept on with their sin, rebelling against the Most High in the desert. 18 They willfully tested God in their hearts, 19 They even spoke against God himself, saying, "God can't give us food in the desert. NLT
Psalms 78:42 They forgot about his power and how he rescued them from their enemies. NLT
Psalms 78:55 He drove out the nations before them; ...56 Yet though he did all this for them, they continued to test his patience. They rebelled against the Most High and refused to follow his decrees. 57 They turned back and were as faithless as their parents had been. They were as useless as a crooked bow.
Hos 6:7 "But like Adam, you broke my covenant; you refused my love...10 Yes, I have seen a horrible thing in Israel-Ephraim chasing other gods, Israel utterly defiled. 11 O Judah, for you also there is a plentiful harvest of punishment waiting-and I wanted so much to bless you! TLB

1 Sam 15:22 Samuel replied (Saul), "Has the Lord as much pleasure in your burnt offerings and sacrifices as in your obedience? Obedience is far better than sacrifice. He is much more interested in your listening to him than in your offering the fat of rams to him. 23 For rebellion is as bad as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as bad as worshiping idols. And now because you have rejected the word of Jehovah, he has rejected you from being king." TLB