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21 As for your sinful thing[a] that you had made, the calf, I took it, melted it down,[b] ground it up until it was as fine as dust, and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 9:21 tn Heb “your sin.” This is a metonymy in which the effect (sin) stands for the cause (the metal calf).
  2. Deuteronomy 9:21 tn Heb “burned it with fire.”

21 Also I took that sinful thing of yours, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust(A) and threw the dust into a stream that flowed down the mountain.(B)

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