They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
Parallel translations
- WEB They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped a molten image.
- BSB At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.
- NKJV They made a calf in Horeb, And worshiped the molded image.
- NASB ¶They made a calf in Horeb, And worshiped a cast metal image.
- NLT The people made a calf at Mount Sinai; they bowed before an image made of gold.
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Quick answer
At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image. It matters because it recalls Israel's grievous descent into idolatry.
Overview
While Moses was on Sinai, Israel made and worshiped the golden calf (Exodus 32:1-6). They broke the covenant they had just received, exchanging the living God for an idol. This rebellion stands as a defining example of the human heart's bent toward false worship.
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- Exod 32:35And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
- Exod 32:4–8And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
- Neh 9:18Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;
- Deut 9:8Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
- Acts 7:41And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
- 1 Cor 10:7Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
- Deut 9:12–16And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
- Deut 9:21And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
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