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Exodus 32:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

He took the gold from them, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it into an image of a calf. Then they said, ‘Israel, these are your gods,  who brought you up from the land of Egypt! ’

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Even after they had cast an image of a calf for themselves and said, ‘This is your god who brought you out of Egypt,’ and they had committed terrible blasphemies,


I saw how you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made a calf image for yourselves. You had quickly turned from the way the Lord had commanded for you.


They even made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to the idol, and were celebrating what their hands had made.


They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them; they have made for themselves an image of a calf. They have bowed down to it, sacrificed to it, and said, “Israel, these are your gods, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.” ’


So the king sought advice. Then he made two golden calves, and he said to the people, ‘Going to Jerusalem is too difficult for you. Israel, here are your gods  who brought you up from the land of Egypt.’


Now they continue to sin and make themselves a cast image, idols skilfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say about them, ‘Let the men who sacrifice  kiss the calves.’


Since, then, we are God’s offspring, we shouldn’t think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image fashioned by human art and imagination.


The residents of Samaria  will have anxiety over the calf  of Beth-aven. Indeed, its idolatrous priests rejoiced over it; the people will mourn over it, over its glory. It will certainly go into exile.


Those who pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales – they hire a goldsmith and he makes it into a god. Then they kneel and bow down to it.


‘And now you are saying you can assert yourselves against the Lord’s kingdom, which is in the hand of one of David’s sons. You are a vast number and have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made for you as gods.  ,


Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places,  the goat-demons,  and the golden calves he had made.


Do not make gods of silver to rival me; do not make gods of gold for yourselves.


but he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit #– #worshipping the gold calves that were in Bethel and Dan.


When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered round Aaron and said to him, ‘Come, make gods  for us who will go before us because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt #– #we don’t know what has happened to him! ’


Jeroboam made a festival in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the festival in Judah.  He offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had made. He also stationed the priests in Bethel for the high places he had made.


Engrave the two stones with the names of Israel’s sons as a gem cutter engraves a seal. Mount them, surrounded with gold filigree settings.


‘Take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of Israel’s sons:


I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.


Don’t become idolaters  as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to party.   ,,


So all the people took off the gold rings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.


When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of it and made an announcement: ‘There will be a festival  to the Lord tomorrow.’


The Lord spoke to Moses: ‘Go down at once! For your people you brought up from the land of Egypt have acted corruptly.


So I said to them, “Whoever has gold, take it off,” and they gave it to me. When I threw it into the fire, out came this calf! ’


And the Lord inflicted a plague on the people for what they did with the calf Aaron had made.


Jehu commanded, ‘Consecrate a solemn assembly  for Baal.’ So they called one.


Then you will defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, and call them filth.


She didn’t give up her promiscuity that began in Egypt,  when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin nipples, and poured out their lust on her.


Do not make an idol  for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.


Then he said to them, ‘Let me make a request of you: Everyone give me an earring from his plunder.’ Now the enemy had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.


Gideon made an ephod  from all this and put it in Ophrah, his home town. Then all Israel prostituted themselves by worshipping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.





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