Exodus 32:3
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3 So all the people took off the gold rings from their ears and brought them to Aaron.
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Jeremiah 10:9
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9 Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish
and gold from Uphaz.
They are the work of the artisan and of the hands of the goldsmith;
their clothing is blue and purple;
they are all the product of skilled workers.(A)
Isaiah 46:6
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6 Those who lavish gold from the purse
and weigh out silver in the scales—
they hire a goldsmith, who makes it into a god;
then they fall down and worship!(A)
Isaiah 40:19-20
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19 An idol? A workman casts it,
and a goldsmith overlays it with gold
and casts for it silver chains.(A)
20 As a gift one chooses mulberry wood[a]
—wood that will not rot—
then seeks out a skilled artisan
to set up an image that will not topple.(B)
Footnotes
- 40.20 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Judges 17:3-4
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3 Then he returned the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I consecrate the silver to the Lord from my hand for my son, to make an idol of cast metal.”(A) 4 So when he returned the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into an idol of cast metal, and it was in the house of Micah.
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