Exodus 32:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

And he took the gold from them and, hammering it with an instrument, he made it into the metal image of a young ox: and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:28

So after taking thought the king made two oxen of gold; and he said to the people, You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough; see! these are your gods, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.

1 Kings 12:32

And Jeroboam gave orders for a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast which is kept in Judah, and he went up to the altar. And in the same way, in Beth-el, he gave offerings to the oxen which he had made, placing in Beth-el the priests of the high places he had made.

2 Kings 10:20

And Jehu said, Let there be a special holy meeting for the worship of Baal. So a public statement was made.

2 Kings 10:29

But Jehu did not keep himself from all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and the evil he made Israel do; the gold oxen were still in Beth-el and in Dan.

2 Chronicles 11:15

And he himself made priests for the high places, and for the images of he-goats and oxen which he had made.

2 Chronicles 13:8

And now it is your purpose to put yourselves against the authority which the Lord has put into the hands of the sons of David, and you are a very great number, and you have with you the gold oxen which Jeroboam made to be your gods.

Nehemiah 9:18

Even when they had made for themselves an ox of metal, and said, This is your God who took you up out of Egypt, and had done so much to make you angry;

Exodus 20:2

I am the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

Exodus 20:23

Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for yourselves.

Exodus 20:4

You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:

Exodus 28:11

With the work of a jeweller, like the cutting of a stamp, the names of the children of Israel are to be cut on them, and they are to be fixed in twisted frames of gold.

Exodus 28:9

You are to take two beryl stones, on which the names of the children of Israel are to be cut:

Exodus 32:1

And when the people saw that Moses was a long time coming down from the mountain, they all came to Aaron and said to him, Come, make us a god to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him.

Exodus 32:24

Then I said to them, Whoever has any gold, let him take it off; so they gave it to me, and I put it in the fire, and this image of an ox came out.

Exodus 32:3

And all the people took the gold rings from their ears and gave them to Aaron.

Exodus 32:35

And the Lord sent punishment on the people because they gave worship to the ox which Aaron made.

Exodus 32:5

And when Aaron saw this, he made an altar before it, and made a public statement, saying, Tomorrow there will be a feast to the Lord.

Exodus 32:7

And the Lord said to Moses, Go down quickly; for your people, whom you took out of the land of Egypt, are turned to evil ways;

Exodus 32:8

Even now they are turned away from the rule I gave them, and have made themselves a metal ox and given worship to it and offerings, saying, This is your god, O Israel, who took you up out of the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 30:22

And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!

Isaiah 46:6

As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.

Ezekiel 23:8

And she has not given up her loose ways from the time when she was in Egypt; for when she was young they were her lovers, and by them her young breasts were crushed, and they let loose on her their unclean desire.

Hosea 10:5

The people of Samaria will be full of fear because of the ox of Beth-aven; its people will have sorrow for it, and its priests will give cries of grief for its glory, for the glory has gone in flight.

Hosea 13:2

And now their sins are increased; they have made themselves a metal image, false gods from their silver, after their designs, all of them the work of the metal-workers; they say of them, Let them give offerings, let men give kisses to the oxen.

Acts 17:29

If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man.

Acts 7:41

And they made the image of a young ox in those days, and made an offering to it, and had joy in the work of their hands.

1 Corinthians 10:7

Then do not go after false gods, as some of them did; as it is said in the holy Writings, After resting and feasting, the people got up to take their pleasure.

Deuteronomy 9:16

And I saw that you had done evil against the Lord, and had made for yourselves a metal image of a young ox: you had quickly been turned from the way in which the Lord had given you orders to go.

Judges 8:24

Then Gideon said to them, I have a request to make to you; let every man give me the ear-rings he has taken. For they had gold ear-rings, because they were Ishmaelites.

Judges 8:27

And Gideon made an ephod from them and put it up in his town Ophrah; and all Israel went after it there and were false to the Lord; and it became a cause of sin to Gideon and his house.