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Exodus 32:3

Aaron

1 Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!”

2 So Aaron told them, “Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me.”

Then all the people took off their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron.

4 He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before the calf and proclaimed: “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD.”

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BSB
Then all the people took off their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron.
KJV
And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
WEB
All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.
ASV
And all the people brake off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
DARBY
Then all the people broke off the golden rings that were in their ears, and brought [them] to Aaron.
BLB
And all the people broke off the golden rings that [were] in their ears and brought [them] to Aaron.
ÅB
Da tok alt folket gullringene ut av sine ører og kom til Aron med dem;
OTB
Så tok hele folket av seg gulløredobbene sine og brakte dem til Aron.
B1930
Da tok alt folket gullringene ut av sine ører og kom til Aron med dem;

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Cross references

  • Isaiah 40:19–20

    To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?

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  • Jeremiah 10:9

    Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz— the work of a craftsman from the hands of a goldsmith. Their clothes are blue and purple, all fashioned by skilled workers.

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  • Isaiah 46:6

    They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.

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  • Judges 17:3–4

    And when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I wholly dedicate the silver to the LORD for my son’s benefit, to make a graven image and a molten idol. Therefore I will now return it to you.”

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