Deuteronomy 9:21
As for your sinful thing that you had made, the calf, I took it, melted it down, ground it up until it was as fine as dust, and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.
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- Exod 32:20 : 20 He took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, poured it out on the water, and made the Israelites drink it.
- Isa 2:18-21 : 18 The worthless idols will be completely eliminated. 19 They will go into caves in the rocky cliffs and into holes in the ground, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the LORD and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth. 20 At that time men will throw their silver and gold idols, which they made for themselves to worship, into the caves where rodents and bats live, 21 so they themselves can go into the crevices of the rocky cliffs and the openings under the rocky overhangs, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the LORD and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.
- Isa 30:22 : 22 You will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag, saying to them,“Get out!”
- Isa 31:7 : 7 For at that time everyone will get rid of the silver and gold idols your hands sinfully made.
- Hos 8:11 : 11 Sacrifices Ineffective without Moral Obedience Although Ephraim has built many altars for sin offerings, these have become altars for sinning!
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- Exod 32:19-213 verses84%
19When he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became extremely angry. He threw the tablets from his hands and broke them to pieces at the bottom of the mountain.
20He took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, poured it out on the water, and made the Israelites drink it.
21Moses said to Aaron,“What did this people do to you, that you have brought on them so great a sin?”
- Deut 9:15-206 verses80%
15So I turned and went down the mountain while it was blazing with fire; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.
16When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the LORD your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf; you had quickly turned aside from the way he had commanded you!
17I grabbed the two tablets, threw them down, and shattered them before your very eyes.
18Then I again fell down before the LORD for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the LORD as to enrage him.
19For I was terrified at the LORD’s intense anger that threatened to destroy you. But he listened to me this time as well.
20The LORD was also angry enough at Aaron to kill him, but at that time I prayed for him too.
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24So I said to them,‘Whoever has gold, break it off.’ So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.”
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18even when they made a cast image of a calf for themselves and said,‘This is your God who brought you up from Egypt,’ or when they committed atrocious blasphemies.
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22Moreover, you continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.
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12And he said to me,“Get up, go down at once from here because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have sinned! They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a cast metal image.”
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35And the LORD sent a plague on the people because they had made the calf– the one Aaron made.
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8They have quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them– they have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said,‘These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt.’”
- Exod 32:3-42 verses72%
3So all the people broke off the gold earrings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.
4He accepted the gold from them, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molten calf. Then they said,“These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”
- Lev 8:16-172 verses71%
16Then he took all the fat on the entrails, the protruding lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat, and Moses offered it all up in smoke on the altar,
17but the rest of the bull– its hide, its flesh, and its dung– he completely burned up outside the camp just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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41At that time they made an idol in the form of a calf, brought a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing in the works of their hands.
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19They made an image of a calf at Horeb, and worshiped a metal idol.
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15He also tore down the altar in Bethel at the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin. He burned all the combustible items at that high place and crushed them to dust; including the Asherah pole.
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2and said to Aaron,“Take for yourself a bull calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both flawless, and present them before the LORD.
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8The Sixth Blow: Boils Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,“Take handfuls of soot from a furnace, and have Moses throw it into the air while Pharaoh is watching.
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8At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.
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12all the rest of the bull– he must bring outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place, to the fatty ash pile, and he must burn it on a wood fire; it must be burned on the fatty ash pile.
- Lev 9:10-112 verses71%
10The fat and the kidneys and the protruding lobe of the liver from the sin offering he offered up in smoke on the altar just as the LORD had commanded Moses,
11but the flesh and the hide he completely burned up outside the camp.
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14But the meat of the bull, its skin, and its dung you are to burn up outside the camp. It is the purification offering.
- Lev 9:7-82 verses70%
7Moses then said to Aaron,“Approach the altar and make your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make atonement on behalf of yourself and on behalf of the people; and also make the people’s offering and make atonement on behalf of them just as the LORD has commanded.”
8The Sin Offering for the Priests So Aaron approached the altar and slaughtered the sin offering calf which was for himself.
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43I grind them as fine as the dust of the ground; I crush them and stomp on them like clay in the streets.
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5Then the heifer must be burned in his sight– its skin, its flesh, its blood, and its offal is to be burned.
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21He must bring the rest of the bull outside the camp and burn it just as he burned the first bull– it is the sin offering of the assembly.
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6He removed the Asherah pole from the LORD’s temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it. He smashed it to dust and then threw the dust in the public graveyard.
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21“Separate yourselves from among this community, that I may consume them in an instant.”
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18I will punish those people who have violated their covenant with me. I will make them like the calf they cut in two and passed between its pieces. I will do so because they did not keep the terms of the covenant they made in my presence.
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21I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my fury, and you will be melted in it.
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9“‘Then a man who is ceremonially clean must gather up the ashes of the red heifer and put them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept for the community of the Israelites for use in the water of purification– it is a purification for sin.
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20Then he cut the ram into parts, and Moses offered the head, the parts, and the suet up in smoke,
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25Moses’ Plea on Behalf of God’s Reputation I lay flat on the ground before the LORD for forty days and nights, for he had said he would destroy you.
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42I grind them as fine windblown dust; I beat them underfoot like clay in the streets.
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9So in this way Jacob’s sin will be forgiven, and this is how they will show they are finished sinning: They will make all the stones of the altars like crushed limestone, and the Asherah poles and the incense altars will no longer stand.
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5O Samaria, he has rejected your calf idol! My anger burns against them! They will not survive much longer without being punished, even though they are Israelites!
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7I said to them,“Each of you must get rid of the detestable idols you keep before you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.”