Calf of Gold

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Exodus 32:1 OT

  When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of…

• Exodus 32:2 OT

  Aaron said to them, “Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me.”

• Exodus 32:3 OT

  All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

• Exodus 32:4 OT

  He received what they handed him, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molded calf. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

• Exodus 32:5 OT

  When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh.”

• Psalms 106:20 OT

  Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass.

• Acts 7:39 NT

  to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

• Acts 7:41 NT

  They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

• Psalms 106:19 OT

  They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped a molten image.

• Exodus 32:6 OT

  They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

• Exodus 32:18 OT

  He said, “It isn’t the voice of those who shout for victory. It is not the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear.”

• Exodus 32:19 OT

  As soon as he came near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. Then Moses’ anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.

• Exodus 32:25 OT

  When Moses saw that the people were out of control, (for Aaron had let them lose control, causing derision among their enemies),

• 1 Corinthians 10:7 NT

  Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”

• Exodus 32:21 OT

  Moses said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?”

• Exodus 32:30 OT

  On the next day, Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin.”

• Exodus 32:31 OT

  Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.

• Psalms 106:21 OT

  They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,

• Exodus 32:8 OT

  They have turned away quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of…

• Deuteronomy 9:12 OT

  Yahweh said to me, “Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned away from the way which I commanded them. They have made a molten image for…

• Deuteronomy 9:16 OT

  I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had made yourselves a molded calf. You had quickly turned away from the way which Yahweh had commanded you.

• Deuteronomy 9:20 OT

  Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

• Exodus 32:10 OT

  Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation.”

• Deuteronomy 9:14 OT

  Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”