Exodus 32:4

Modern English Version

He received them from their hand, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it into a molded calf. Then they said, “This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

Cross References

1 Kings 12:28

At that point, the king got some advice and made two golden calves and said to the people, “It is too difficult for you to go up to Jerusalem. Behold, your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

1 Kings 12:32

Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar. He did this in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he stationed in Bethel the priests of the high places he had made.

2 Kings 10:20

Jehu said, “Sanctify a festive assembly for Baal.” So they proclaimed it.

2 Kings 10:29

But from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, Jehu did not turn aside (that is, the golden calves that were in Bethel and Dan).

2 Chronicles 11:15

And he set for himself priests for the high places and for the goat and calf idols that he made.

2 Chronicles 13:8

“And now you think that you can withstand before the kingdom of the Lord by the hand of the sons of David. And you all are a great multitude, and with you are the golden calves that Jeroboam has made for you to be gods.

Nehemiah 9:18

“Even when they had made themselves a molded calf and said, ‘This is your god that brought you out of Egypt,’ and committed terrible provocations,

Exodus 20:2

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Exodus 20:23

You shall not make gods of silver alongside Me or make gods of gold for yourselves.

Exodus 20:4

You shall not make for yourself any graven idol, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water below the earth.

Exodus 28:11

With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones with the names of the Israelites. You shall set them in filigree of gold.

Exodus 28:9

You shall take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the Israelites,

Exodus 32:1

Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together around Aaron and said to him, “Come, make us gods which will go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”

Exodus 32:24

I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them break it off.’ So they gave it to me, and then I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.”

Exodus 32:3

So all the people broke off the gold earrings that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.

Exodus 32:35

And the Lord plagued the people because they had made the calf, the one that Aaron made.

Exodus 32:5

When Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow will be a feast to the Lord.”

Exodus 32:7

The Lord spoke to Moses, “Go, and get down, for your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.

Exodus 32:8

They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molded calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, which has brought you up from the land of Egypt.’ ”

Isaiah 30:22

You shall defile also your graven images overlaid with silver, and your molded images ornamented with gold. You shall scatter them as an impure thing, and say to them, “Be gone!”

Isaiah 46:6

They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver on the scales; they hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god; they fall down and worship it.

Ezekiel 23:8

She did not forsake her harlotries from the time in Egypt. For in her youth they lay with her, and they handled her virgin bosom and poured their harlotry upon her.

Hosea 10:5

The inhabitants of Samaria fear because of the calf of Beth-aven. For its people mourn for it, and its priests shriek for it, because its glory has departed from it.

Hosea 13:2

And now they continue sinning and have made a cast image for themselves, idols of their silver, according to their understanding; all of them the work of craftsmen. They say of them, “Those who sacrifice are kissing calves!”

Acts 17:29

“Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to suppose that the Deity is like gold or silver or stone or an engraved work of art or an image of the reflection of man.

Acts 7:41

So they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

1 Corinthians 10:7

Neither be idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to revel.”

Deuteronomy 9:16

And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God and had made yourselves a molded calf. You had quickly turned aside out of the way which the Lord had commanded you.

Judges 8:24

Gideon continued, “I have a request to make of you, that each man would give me an earring from his spoils.” (Their enemy had golden earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)

Judges 8:27

Gideon used these things to make an ephod. He put it in his city, in Ophrah, and all Israel prostituted themselves to it there. It became a snare to Gideon and his family.