Thematic Bible: Was made
Thematic Bible
Calf of gold » Was made » After an egyptian model
Our fathers were unwilling to be subject to him [and refused to listen to him]. They rejected him, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.
Verse Concepts
In those days they made a calf and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced and celebrated over the works of their hands.
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Calf of gold » Was made » Of the ornaments of the women, &c
So Aaron replied, Take the gold rings from the ears of your wives, your sons, and daughters, and bring them to me. So all the people took the gold rings from their ears and brought them to Aaron.
Calf of gold » Was made » To represent God
And he received the gold at their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made it a molten calf; and they said, These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt! And when Aaron saw the molten calf, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, Tomorrow shall be a feast to the Lord.
Calf of gold » Was made » To go before the congregation
Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, they gathered together before Aaron and said to him, “Come, make us a god who will go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”
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