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Exodus 32 General Notes
Structure and formatting
The events of this chapter occur while Moses spoke with God and therefore happen at the same time as the events in chapters 20-31.
Some translations set poetry farther to the right than the rest of the text to show that it is poetry. The ULB does this with the poetry in 32:18.
Special concepts in this chapter
Idolatry
The making of the golden calf was considered a form of idolatry. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit)