So Aaron said to them, “Take off the (A)rings of gold that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” So all the people took off the rings of gold that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. (B)And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden[a] calf. And they said, (C)“These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!” When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it. And Aaron (D)made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the Lord.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 32:4 Hebrew cast metal; also verse 8

Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold earrings(A) that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.” So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. He took what they handed him and made it into an idol(B) cast in the shape of a calf,(C) fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods,[a](D) Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”(E)

When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the calf and announced, “Tomorrow there will be a festival(F) to the Lord.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 32:4 Or This is your god; also in verse 8

21 And Moses said to Aaron, (A)“What did this people do to you that you have brought such a great sin upon them?”

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21 He said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you led them into such great sin?”

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35 Then the Lord sent a plague on the people, because they made the calf, the one that Aaron made.

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35 And the Lord struck the people with a plague because of what they did with the calf(A) Aaron had made.

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