Exodus 32:1-4 New International Version
The Golden Calf
32 When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain,(A) they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods[a] who will go before(B) us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.”(C)
2 Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold earrings(D) that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.” 3 So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. 4 He took what they handed him and made it into an idol(E) cast in the shape of a calf,(F) fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods,[b](G) Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”(H)
Footnotes
- Exodus 32:1 Or a god; also in verses 23 and 31
- Exodus 32:4 Or This is your god; also in verse 8
Cross references
- Exodus 32:1 : S Ge 7:4; Dt 9:9-12
- Exodus 32:1 : S Ex 13:21
- Exodus 32:1 : ver 23; Ac 7:40*
- Exodus 32:2 : Jdg 8:24-27
- Exodus 32:4 : S Ex 20:23; Jdg 17:3-4; Isa 30:22
- Exodus 32:4 : ver 8, 24, 35; Dt 9:16; Ne 9:18; Ps 106:19; Ac 7:41
- Exodus 32:4 : Ex 20:23; Isa 42:17
- Exodus 32:4 : 1Ki 12:28; 14:9; 2Ki 10:29; 17:16; 2Ch 13:8; Hos 8:6; 10:5
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