Thematic Bible: Molding


Thematic Bible



And he took the gold from their hands, and fashioned it with an engraving tool and made it into a molten calf; and they said, “This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

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

Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made (cast) a molten image for themselves.’

You shall make for yourselves no molten gods.

Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods (images cast in metal); I am the Lord your God.


The king cast them on the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.

In the plain of the Jordan [River] the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.



“Can you, with Him, spread out the sky,
Strong as a molten mirror?


Now he made the Sea (basin) of cast metal, ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, five cubits high and thirty cubits in circumference.


He cast the two pillars of bronze; the one pillar was eighteen cubits high, and a [measuring] line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of both.