Deuteronomy 9:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And I took your sin, the image which you had made, and put it in the fire and had it hammered and crushed very small till it was only dust: and the dust I put in the stream flowing down from the mountain.

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  • Exod 32:20 : 20 And he took the ox which they had made, burning it in the fire and crushing it to powder, and he put it in the water and made the children of Israel take a drink of it.
  • Isa 2:18-21 : 18 And the images will never be seen again. 19 And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength. 20 In that day men will put their images of silver and of gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts of the dark places; 21 To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.
  • Isa 30:22 : 22 And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!
  • Isa 31:7 : 7 For in that day they will all give up their images of silver and of gold, the sin which they made for themselves.
  • Hos 8:11 : 11 Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 84%

    19 And when he came near the tents he saw the image of the ox, and the people dancing; and in his wrath Moses let the stones go from his hands, and they were broken at the foot of the mountain.

    20 And he took the ox which they had made, burning it in the fire and crushing it to powder, and he put it in the water and made the children of Israel take a drink of it.

    21 And Moses said to Aaron, What did the people do to you that you let this great sin come on them?

  • Deut 9:15-20
    6 verses
    80%

    15 So turning round I came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire; and the two stones of the agreement were in my hands.

    16 And I saw that you had done evil against the Lord, and had made for yourselves a metal image of a young ox: you had quickly been turned from the way in which the Lord had given you orders to go.

    17 And I let the stones go from my hands, and they were broken before your eyes.

    18 And I went down on my face before the Lord, as at the first, for forty days and forty nights, without taking food or drinking water, because of all your sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord and moving him to wrath.

    19 For I was full of fear because of the wrath of the Lord which was burning against you, with your destruction in view. But again the Lord's ear was open to my prayer.

    20 And the Lord, in his wrath, would have put Aaron to death: and I made prayer for Aaron at the same time.

  • 24 Then I said to them, Whoever has any gold, let him take it off; so they gave it to me, and I put it in the fire, and this image of an ox came out.

  • 18 Even when they had made for themselves an ox of metal, and said, This is your God who took you up out of Egypt, and had done so much to make you angry;

  • 22 Again at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you made the Lord angry.

  • 12 And the Lord said to me, Get up now, and go down quickly from this place; for the people you have taken out of Egypt have given themselves over to evil; they have quickly been turned from the way in which I gave them orders to go; they have made themselves a metal image.

  • 35 And the Lord sent punishment on the people because they gave worship to the ox which Aaron made.

  • 8 Even now they are turned away from the rule I gave them, and have made themselves a metal ox and given worship to it and offerings, saying, This is your god, O Israel, who took you up out of the land of Egypt.

  • Exod 32:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3 And all the people took the gold rings from their ears and gave them to Aaron.

    4 And he took the gold from them and, hammering it with an instrument, he made it into the metal image of a young ox: and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.

  • Lev 8:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16 And he took all the fat on the inside parts, and the fat on the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, to be burned on the altar;

    17 But the ox, with its skin and its flesh and its waste, was burned with fire outside the tent-circle, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

  • 41 And they made the image of a young ox in those days, and made an offering to it, and had joy in the work of their hands.

  • 19 They made a young ox in Horeb, and gave worship to an image of gold.

  • 15 And the altar at Beth-el, and the high place put up by Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil, that altar and that high place were pulled down; and the high place was burned and crushed to dust and the Asherah was burned.

  • 2 And he said to Aaron, Take a young ox for a sin-offering and a male sheep for a burned offering, without a mark, and make an offering of them before the Lord.

  • 8 And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron, Take in your hand a little dust from the fire and let Moses send it in a shower up to heaven before the eyes of Pharaoh.

  • 8 Again in Horeb you made the Lord angry, and in his wrath he would have put an end to you.

  • 12 All the ox, he is to take away outside the circle of the tents into a clean place where the burned waste is put, and there it is to be burned on wood with fire.

  • Lev 9:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10 But the fat and the kidneys and the fat on the liver of the sin-offering were burned by him on the altar as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

    11 And the flesh and the skin were burned with fire outside the tent-circle;

  • 14 But the flesh of the ox and its skin and its waste parts are to be burned outside the circle of the tents, for it is a sin-offering.

  • Lev 9:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7 And Moses said to Aaron, Come near to the altar and make your sin-offering and your burned offering to take away your sin and the sin of the people, and make the people's offering to take away their sin; as the Lord has given orders.

    8 So Aaron came near to the altar and put to death the ox for the sin-offering for himself;

  • 43 Then they were crushed as small as the dust of the earth, stamped down under my feet like the waste of the streets.

  • 5 And the cow is to be burned before him, her skin and her flesh and her blood and her waste are to be burned:

  • 21 Then let the ox be taken away outside the tent-circle, that it may be burned as the other ox was burned; it is the sin-offering for all the people.

  • 6 And he took the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem to the stream Kidron, burning it by the stream and crushing it to dust, and he put the dust on the place where the bodies of the common people were put to rest.

  • 21 Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them.

  • 18 And I will give the men who have gone against my agreement and have not given effect to the words of the agreement which they made before me, when the ox was cut in two and they went between the parts of it,

  • 21 Yes, I will take you, breathing on you the fire of my wrath, and you will become soft in it.

  • 9 Then let a man who is clean take the dust of the burned cow and put it outside the tent-circle in a clean place, where it is to be kept for the children of Israel and used in making the water which takes away what is unclean: it is a sin-offering.

  • 20 And when the sheep had been cut into parts, the head and the parts and the fat were burned by Moses.

  • 25 So I went down on my face in prayer before the Lord for forty days and forty nights as I did at first; because the Lord had said that he would put an end to you.

  • 42 Then they were crushed as small as dust before the wind; they were drained out like the waste of the streets.

  • 9 So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.

  • 5 I will have nothing to do with your young ox, O Samaria; my wrath is burning against them; how long will it be before the children of Israel make themselves clean?

  • 7 And I said to them, Let every man among you put away the disgusting things to which his eyes are turned, and do not make yourselves unclean with the images of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.