Exodus 32:21–24
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About this episode
We live in an age that has perfected the art of the excuse. We have elevated blame-shifting to a high cultural art form. Responsibility is a hot potato, and no one wants to be left holding it when the music stops. And in our text today, we find Aaron, the high priest, speaking this native tongue with pathetic fluency. The covenant has been violated in the most flagrant way imaginable. And so Moses, the mediator, confronts his brother Aaron, the man he left in charge. What follows is one of the most pitiful, transparent, and frankly comical excuses in all of Scripture. It would be funny if the consequences were not so deadly. But we must not stand at a distance and mock Aaron as though we were made of finer stuff. His cowardly rationalizations, his finger-pointing, and his theological gymnastics are all too familiar.