Exodus 32:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 9:21 : 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.
  • 2 Kgs 23:6 : 6 He 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.
  • 2 Kgs 23:15 : 15 He 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.
  • Prov 1:31 : 31 Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel.
  • Prov 14:14 : 14 The backslider will be paid back from his own ways, but a good person will be rewarded for his.
  • Deut 7:5 : 5 Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, cut down their sacred Asherah poles, and burn up their idols.
  • Deut 7:25 : 25 You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent to the LORD your God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 9:20-22
    3 verses
    84%

    20The LORD was also angry enough at Aaron to kill him, but at that time I prayed for him too.

    21As 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.

    22Moreover, you continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.

  • Exod 32:19
    82%

    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.

  • Exod 32:23-25
    3 verses
    80%

    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.

  • Exod 32:21
    80%

    21Moses said to Aaron,“What did this people do to you, that you have brought on them so great a sin?”

  • Exod 32:1-8
    8 verses
    79%

    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!”

    2So 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.”

    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.”

    6So they got up early on the next day and offered up burnt offerings and brought peace offerings, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.

    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 32:35
    76%

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

  • Neh 9:18
    76%

    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.

  • Ps 106:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

    19They made an image of a calf at Horeb, and worshiped a metal idol.

    20They traded their majestic God for the image of an ox that eats grass.

  • Acts 7:40-41
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Deut 9:15-17
    3 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Lev 8:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    19and he slaughtered it. Moses then splashed the blood against the altar’s sides.

    20Then he cut the ram into parts, and Moses offered the head, the parts, and the suet up in smoke,

    21but the entrails and the legs he washed with water, and Moses offered the whole ram up in smoke on the altar– it was a burnt offering for a soothing aroma, a gift to the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Lev 24:23
    71%

    23Then Moses spoke to the Israelites and they brought the one who cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. So the Israelites did just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Exod 32:31
    71%

    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.

  • Lev 8:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

  • Deut 9:12
    70%

    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.”

  • Exod 9:10
    70%

    10So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh, Moses threw it into the air, and it caused festering boils to break out on both people and animals.

  • Ezek 20:8
    70%

    8But they rebelled against me, and refused to listen to me; no one got rid of their detestable idols, nor did they abandon the idols of Egypt. Then I decided to pour out my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

  • Lev 8:28
    70%

    28Moses then took them from their palms and offered them up in smoke on the altar on top of the burnt offering– they were an ordination offering for a soothing aroma; it was a gift to the LORD.

  • Num 19:5
    70%

    5Then the heifer must be burned in his sight– its skin, its flesh, its blood, and its offal is to be burned.

  • Exod 9:8
    70%

    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.

  • Exod 32:12
    70%

    12Why should the Egyptians say,‘For evil he led them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger, and relent of this evil against your people.

  • Lev 8:32
    70%

    32but the remainder of the meat and the bread you must burn with fire.

  • 2 Kgs 23:15
    69%

    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.

  • Lev 9:20
    69%

    20they set those on the breasts and he offered the fat parts up in smoke on the altar.

  • Jer 34:18
    69%

    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.

  • Exod 24:5
    69%

    5He sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls for peace offerings to the LORD.