Exodus 32:24

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So 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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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 32:4 : 4 He 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.”
  • Luke 10:29 : 29 But the expert, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus,“And who is my neighbor?”
  • Rom 3:10 : 10 just as it is written:“There is no one righteous, not even one,
  • Gen 3:12-13 : 12 The man said,“The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.” 13 So the LORD God said to the woman,“What is this you have done?” And the woman replied,“The serpent tricked me, and I ate.”

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  • Exod 32:1-5
    5 verses
    84%

    1 The 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!”

    2 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.”

    3 So all the people broke off the gold earrings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.

    4 He 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.”

    5 When 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 32:7-9
    3 verses
    83%

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

    8 They 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.’”

    9 Then the LORD said to Moses:“I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are!

  • 23 They 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.’

  • 80%

    19 When 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.

    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.

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

  • 18 even 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.

  • Acts 7:40-41
    2 verses
    79%

    40 saying 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!’

    41 At 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.

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

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

  • Deut 9:15-17
    3 verses
    78%

    15 So I turned and went down the mountain while it was blazing with fire; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

    16 When 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!

    17 I grabbed the two tablets, threw them down, and shattered them before your very eyes.

  • 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.

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

  • 12 And 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.”

  • 31 So 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.

  • 28 After 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.”

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

  • Num 31:50-51
    2 verses
    72%

    50 So 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.”

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

  • 18 I 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.

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

  • 2 Even now they persist in sin! They make metal images for themselves, idols that they skillfully fashion from their own silver; all of them are nothing but the work of craftsmen! There is a saying about them:“Those who sacrifice to the calf idol are calf kissers!”

  • 23 You must not make gods of silver alongside me, nor make gods of gold for yourselves.

  • 6 Those who empty out gold from a purse and weigh out silver on the scale hire a metalsmith, who makes it into a god. They then bow down and worship it.

  • 5 For 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.’”

  • Ezek 20:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7 I 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.”

    8 But 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.

  • 19 A craftsman casts an idol; a metalsmith overlays it with gold and forges silver chains for it.

  • 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!”

  • 6 That idol was made by a workman– it is not God! The calf idol of Samaria will be broken to bits.

  • 24 He made the lampstand and all its accessories with seventy-five pounds of pure gold.

  • 39 About seventy-five pounds of pure gold is to be used for it and for all these utensils.

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

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

  • 7 For at that time everyone will get rid of the silver and gold idols your hands sinfully made.