Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
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The Scripture echoes (this verse)Exodus 32:4
Paul quotes the feast that followed the calf: the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
“He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, “These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.”