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The Golden Calf

Exodus 32:3

In 11 translations

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.
LSV
and all the people break off the rings of gold which [are] in their ears, and bring [them] to Aaron,
YLT
and all the people themselves break off the rings of gold which [are] in their ears, and bring in unto Aaron,
DBY
Then all the people broke off the golden rings that were in their ears, and brought [them] to Aaron.
DRC
And the people did what he had commanded, bringing the earrings to Aaron.
GNV
Then all ye people pluckt from them selues the golden earings, which were in their eares, and they brought them vnto Aaron.
JPS
And all the people broke off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
LXXE
And all the people took off the golden ear-rings that were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וַיִּתְפָּֽרְקוּ֙ כָּל־הָעָ֔ם אֶת־נִזְמֵ֥י הַזָּהָ֖ב אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּאָזְנֵיהֶ֑ם וַיָּבִ֖יאוּ אֶֽל־אַהֲרֹֽן׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ περιείλαντο πᾶς ὁ λαὸς τὰ ἐνώτια τὰ χρυσᾶ τὰ ἐν τοῖς ὠσὶν αὐτῶν, καὶ ἤνεγκαν πρὸς Ἀαρών.

Who and where

👤 Aaron◆ Tabernacle Built

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Isaiah 40:19–20To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains? To one bereft of an offering who chooses wood that will not rot, who seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that…
  • Judges 17:3–4And 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…
  • Jeremiah 10:9Hammered 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.
  • Isaiah 46:6They 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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