Thematic Bible: Molding


Thematic Bible



He took this from their hand, and fashioned it with a graving 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 for themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it and have 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 out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made a molten image for themselves.’

You shall make for yourself no molten gods.

Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods; I am the Lord your God.


On the plain of the Jordan the king cast them in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.

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


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


Now he made the sea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits, and thirty cubits in circumference.


He fashioned the two pillars of bronze; eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of both.