I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.
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I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.
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And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
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And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and beat it in pieces, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. —
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 9:21 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 32:20 He took the calf which they had made, and burned it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink it.
- Isaiah 31:7 For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—sin which your own hands have made for you.
- Isaiah 2:18-21 The idols shall utterly pass away. Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily. In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats, to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
- Isaiah 30:22 You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!”
- Hosea 8:11 Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Horeb, or Sinai.
Horeb, or Sinai.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Your sin, i.e. the object and matter of your…
Your sin, i.e. the object and matter of your sin, as sin is taken Isa 31:7.
I cast the dust thereof into the brook, that there might be no monument or remembrance of it left.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And I took your sin, the calf which ye…
And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made,.... Which was the object of their sin, which lay in making and worshipping it; see Isa 31:7.
and burnt it with fire, and stamped it; with his feet after it was burnt, to bring it into small pieces:
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and ground it very small; or, as the Targum of Jonathan,"ground it in a mortar well;''the burnt and broken pieces:
even until it was as small as dust; being ground to powder, as in Exo 32:20.
and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount; and made the children of Israel to drink of it, as in the previously mentioned place; See Gill on Exo 32:2; all this was done before the prayer for Aaron and the people.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Into the brook - That there might be no…
Into the brook - That there might be no monument or remembrance of it left.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 21. I took your sin, the calf which…
Verse 21. I took your sin, the calf which ye had made] See this fully explained, Clarke "Ex 32:20".
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Deu 9:21. I cast the dust thereof into the…
Deu 9:21. I cast the dust thereof into the brook — That there might be no monument nor remembrance of the calf left.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Sin. The Scripture designates by this name not only…
Sin. The Scripture designates by this name not only the evil action, but also the propensity to it, the object, matter, occasion, punishment , or victim of sin. --- The calf. He broke the idol in pieces, and then ground it small, Exodus xxxii. 20. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain I cast the dust thereof into the brook that…
I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount--that is, "the smitten rock" (El Leja) which was probably contiguous to, or a part of, Sinai. It is too seldom borne in mind that though the Israelites were supplied with water from this rock when they were stationed at Rephidim (Wady Feiran), there is nothing in the Scripture narrative which should lead us to suppose that the rock was in the immediate neighborhood of that place (see on Exo 17:5). The water on this smitten rock was probably the brook that descended from the mount. The water may have flowed at the distance of many miles from the rock, as the winter torrents do now through the wadies of Arabia-Petræa (Psa 78:15-16). And the rock may have been smitten at such a height, and at a spot bearing such a relation to the Sinaitic valleys, as to furnish in this way supplies of water to the Israelites during the journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir and Kadesh-barnea (Deu 1:1-2). On this supposition new light is, perhaps, cast on the figurative language of the apostle, when he speaks of "the rock following" the Israelites (Co1 10:4) [WILSON, Land of the Bible].
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 21. I took your sin, the calf — The…
21. I took your sin, the calf — The word which is here translated sin is used sometimes for that which is the occasion of sin. Comp. Hos_10:8.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 21. Characteristically expanded, with variations, from Exo_32:20 : one…
21. Characteristically expanded, with variations, from Exo_32:20 : one item in the latter, and made the children of Israel drink of it, is omitted.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (21) I took your sin . . . and…
(21) I took your sin . . . and I cast the dust thereof into the brook.—The stream from the rock in Horeb not only gave Israel drink, but bore away their “sin” upon its waters. “And that Rock was Christ.” This identification of the sin with the material object is in harmony with the Law in Leviticus, where “sin” and “sin-offering”—“trespass” and “trespass offering”—are respectively denoted by a single word.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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Moses continues reminding the people of Israel about what happened in the past.
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I took ... burned ... beat ... ground ... threw
Moses probably commanded other men to do the actual work. AT: "I had people take ... burn ... beat ... grind ... throw"
your sin, the calf that you had made
Here the gold calf itself referred to as their "sin." AT: "the calf, which you sinfully made" (See: Metonymy)
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sin
cow
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