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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!”

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 24:18 : 18 Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
  • Acts 7:40 : 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!’
  • 2 Pet 3:4 : 4 and saying,“Where is his promised return? For ever since our ancestors died, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation.”
  • Deut 9:9 : 9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.
  • Exod 32:7 : 7 The LORD spoke to Moses:“Go quickly, descend, because your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly.
  • Exod 13:21 : 21 Now the LORD was going before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them in the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel day or night.
  • Exod 14:11 : 11 and they said to Moses,“Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What in the world have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?
  • Exod 16:3 : 3 The Israelites said to them,“If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger!”
  • Exod 20:3-5 : 3 “You shall have no other gods before me. 4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me,
  • Gen 19:14 : 14 Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were going to marry his daughters. He said,“Quick, get out of this place because the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was ridiculing them.
  • Gen 21:26 : 26 “I do not know who has done this thing,” Abimelech replied.“Moreover, you did not tell me. I did not hear about it until today.”
  • Gen 39:8 : 8 But he refused, saying to his master’s wife,“Look, my master does not give any thought to his household with me here, and everything that he owns he has put into my care.
  • Gen 44:4 : 4 They had not gone very far from the city when Joseph said to the servant who was over his household,“Pursue the men at once! When you overtake them, say to them,‘Why have you repaid good with evil?
  • Gen 44:15 : 15 Joseph said to them,“What did you think you were doing? Don’t you know that a man like me can find out things like this by divination?”
  • Exod 32:11 : 11 But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God and said,“O LORD, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
  • Exod 33:3 : 3 Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you on the way.”
  • Exod 33:14-15 : 14 And the LORD said,“My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” 15 And Moses said to him,“If your presence does not go with us, do not take us up from here.
  • Deut 4:15-18 : 15 The Nature of Israel’s God Be very careful, then, because you saw no form at the time the LORD spoke to you at Horeb from the middle of the fire. 16 I say this so you will not corrupt yourselves by making an image in the form of any kind of figure. This includes the likeness of a human male or female, 17 any kind of land animal, any bird that flies in the sky, 18 anything that crawls on the ground, or any fish in the deep waters of the earth.
  • Deut 9:11-12 : 11 Now at the end of the forty days and nights the LORD presented me with the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant. 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.”
  • Josh 7:13 : 13 Get up! Ritually consecrate the people and tell them this:‘Ritually consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, because this is what the LORD God of Israel has said,“You are contaminated, O Israel! You will not be able to stand before your enemies until you remove what is contaminating you.”
  • Hos 12:13 : 13 The LORD brought Israel out of Egypt by a prophet, and due to a prophet Israel was preserved alive.
  • Mic 6:4 : 4 In fact, I brought you up from the land of Egypt, I delivered you from that place of slavery. I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to lead you.
  • Acts 17:29 : 29 So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.
  • Acts 19:26 : 26 And you see and hear that this Paul has persuaded and turned away a large crowd, not only in Ephesus but in practically all of the province of Asia, by saying that gods made by hands are not gods at all.
  • Matt 24:43 : 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into.
  • Matt 24:48 : 48 But if that evil slave should say to himself,‘My master is staying away a long time,’