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

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