Exodus 32:2

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So Aaron said to them,“Break off the gold earrings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”

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  • Judg 8:24-27 : 24 Gideon continued,“I would like to make one request. Each of you give me an earring from the plunder you have taken.”(The Midianites had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.) 25 They said,“We are happy to give you earrings.” So they spread out a garment, and each one threw an earring from his plunder onto it. 26 The total weight of the gold earrings he requested came to seventeen hundred gold shekels. This was in addition to the crescent-shaped ornaments, jewelry, purple clothing worn by the Midianite kings, and the necklaces on the camels. 27 Gideon used all this to make an ephod, which he put in his hometown of Ophrah. All the Israelites prostituted themselves to it by worshiping it there. It became a snare to Gideon and his family.
  • Ezek 16:11-12 : 11 I adorned you with jewelry. I put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck. 12 I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
  • Ezek 16:17 : 17 You also took your beautiful jewelry, made of my gold and my silver I had given to you, and made for yourself male images and engaged in prostitution with them.
  • Hos 2:8 : 8 Agricultural Fertility Withdrawn from Israel Yet until now she has refused to acknowledge that I was the one who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil; and that it was I who lavished on her the silver and gold– which they used in worshiping Baal!
  • Exod 12:35-36 : 35 Now the Israelites had done as Moses told them– they had requested from the Egyptians silver and gold items and clothing. 36 The LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and they gave them whatever they wanted, and so they plundered Egypt.
  • Exod 35:22 : 22 They came, men and women alike, all who had willing hearts. They brought brooches, earrings, rings and ornaments, all kinds of gold jewelry, and everyone came who waved a wave offering of gold to the LORD.
  • Gen 24:22 : 22 After the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka and two gold wrist bracelets weighing ten shekels and gave them to her.
  • Gen 24:47 : 47 Then I asked her,‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied,‘The daughter of Bethuel the son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.’ I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.

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  • Exod 32:3-5
    3 verses
    94%

    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.”

    5When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it, and Aaron made a proclamation and said,“Tomorrow will be a feast to the LORD.”

  • Exod 32:1
    82%

    1The Sin of the Golden Calf When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him,“Get up, make us gods that will go before us. As for this fellow Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him!”

  • Exod 32:20-25
    6 verses
    80%

    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?”

    22Aaron said,“Do not let your anger burn hot, my lord; you know these people, that they tend to evil.

    23They said to me,‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this fellow Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’

    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.”

    25Moses saw that the people were running wild, for Aaron had let them get completely out of control, causing derision from their enemies.

  • Num 31:50-51
    2 verses
    78%

    50So we have brought as an offering for the LORD what each man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”

    51Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all of it in the form of ornaments.

  • Exod 11:2
    77%

    2Instruct the people that each man and each woman is to request from his or her neighbor items of silver and gold.”

  • Exod 32:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7The LORD spoke to Moses:“Go quickly, descend, because your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly.

    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 35:22
    76%

    22They came, men and women alike, all who had willing hearts. They brought brooches, earrings, rings and ornaments, all kinds of gold jewelry, and everyone came who waved a wave offering of gold to the LORD.

  • Exod 33:4-6
    3 verses
    75%

    4When the people heard this troubling word they mourned; no one put on his ornaments.

    5For the LORD had said to Moses,“Tell the Israelites,‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I went up among you for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments, that I may know what I should do to you.’”

    6So the Israelites stripped off their ornaments by Mount Horeb.

  • Exod 12:35
    74%

    35Now the Israelites had done as Moses told them– they had requested from the Egyptians silver and gold items and clothing.

  • Acts 7:40-41
    2 verses
    74%

    40saying to Aaron,‘Make us gods who will go in front of us, for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt– we do not know what has happened to him!’

    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.

  • Exod 3:22
    73%

    22Every woman will ask her neighbor and the one who happens to be staying in her house for items of silver and gold and for clothing. You will put these articles on your sons and daughters– thus you will plunder Egypt!”

  • Exod 32:31
    73%

    31So Moses returned to the LORD and said,“Alas, this people has committed a very serious sin, and they have made for themselves gods of gold.

  • Exod 25:3
    73%

    3This is the offering you are to accept from them: gold, silver, bronze,

  • Exod 32:35
    72%

    35And the LORD sent a plague on the people because they had made the calf– the one Aaron made.

  • Exod 35:5
    72%

    5‘Take an offering for the LORD. Let everyone who has a willing heart bring an offering to the LORD: gold, silver, bronze,

  • Num 31:54
    72%

    54So Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD.

  • Judg 8:24-26
    3 verses
    71%

    24Gideon continued,“I would like to make one request. Each of you give me an earring from the plunder you have taken.”(The Midianites had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)

    25They said,“We are happy to give you earrings.” So they spread out a garment, and each one threw an earring from his plunder onto it.

    26The total weight of the gold earrings he requested came to seventeen hundred gold shekels. This was in addition to the crescent-shaped ornaments, jewelry, purple clothing worn by the Midianite kings, and the necklaces on the camels.

  • Num 3:51
    71%

    51Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Deut 9:12
    71%

    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.”

  • Lev 17:2
    71%

    2“Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites, and tell them:‘This is the word that the LORD has commanded:

  • Exod 31:10
    71%

    10the woven garments, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons, to minister as priests,

  • Exod 6:26
    71%

    26It was the same Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said,“Bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their regiments.”

  • Lev 8:13
    70%

    13Moses also brought forward Aaron’s sons, clothed them with tunics, wrapped sashes around them, and wrapped headbands on them just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Exod 28:13
    70%

    13You are to make filigree settings of gold

  • Isa 3:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20headdresses, ankle ornaments, sashes, sachets, amulets,

    21rings, nose rings,

  • Exod 4:29-30
    2 verses
    70%

    29Then Moses and Aaron went and brought together all the Israelite elders.

    30Aaron spoke all the words that the LORD had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people,

  • 1 Kgs 12:28
    70%

    28After the king had consulted with his advisers, he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people,“It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

  • Neh 9:18
    70%

    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.

  • Lev 22:1
    70%

    1Regulations for the Eating of Priestly Stipends The LORD spoke to Moses: