Verse 3

So all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 17:3-4 : 3 And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver to the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it to you. 4 Yet he restored the money to his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a carved image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.
  • Isa 40:19-20 : 19 The workman molds a graven image, the goldsmith covers it with gold and casts silver chains. 20 He who is so impoverished that he has no offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks for himself a skillful workman to prepare a graven image that will not be moved.
  • Isa 46:6 : 6 They pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver on the scales, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god: they fall down, yes, they worship.
  • Jer 10:9 : 9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple are their clothing: they are all the work of skilled men.