The Golden Calf

32 Now when the people saw that Moses (A)delayed to come down from the mountain, the people assembled around Aaron and said to him, “Come, (B)make us [a]a god who will go before us; for (C)this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt—we do not know what happened to him.” Aaron said to them, “(D)Tear off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 32:1 Or gods

Then he took the gold from their [a]hands, and fashioned it with an engraving tool and made it into a (A)cast metal calf; and they said, “[b]This is your god, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 32:4 Lit hand
  2. Exodus 32:4 Or These are your gods

17 moreover, you have seen their abominations and their idols made of (A)wood and stone, silver and gold, which they had with them);

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