Exodus 32:4
Good News Translation
He took the earrings, melted them, poured the gold into a mold, and made a gold bull-calf. The people said, "Israel, this is our god, who led us out of Egypt!"

New Revised Standard Version
He took the gold from them, formed it in a mold, and cast an image of a calf; and they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

Contemporary English Version
then he melted them and made an idol in the shape of a young bull. All the people said to one another, "This is the god who brought us out of Egypt!"

New American Bible
He received their offering, and fashioning it with a tool, made a molten calf. Then they cried out, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he had received them, he fashioned them by founders' work, and made of them a molten calf. And they said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when he had received them, he fashioned them by founders' work, and made of them a molten calf. And they said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

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Exodus 20:23 You shall not make gods of silver, nor shall you make to yourselves gods of gold.

Deuteronomy 9:16 And saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made to yourselves a molten calf, and had quickly forsaken his way, which he had shewn you:

Psalm 106:19-21 They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven thing. . . .

Isaiah 44:9,10 The makers of idols are all of them nothing, and their best beloved things shall not profit them. They are their witnesses, that they do not see, nor understand, that they may be ashamed. . . .

Isaiah 46:6 To whom have you likened me, and made me equal, and compared me, and made me like?

Acts 7:41 And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifices to the idol and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

Acts 17:29 Being therefore the offspring of God, we must not suppose the divinity to be like unto gold or silver or stone, the graving of art and device of man.

a graving

Exodus 28:9,11 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and shalt grave on them the names of the children of Israel: . . .

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1 Kings 12:28,32 And finding out a device, he made two golden calves, and said to them: Go ye up no more to Jerusalem: Behold thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt. . . .

2 Kings 10:29 But yet he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, nor did he forsake the golden calves that were in Bethel, and Dan.

2 Chronicles 11:15 And he made to himself priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.

2 Chronicles 13:8 And now you say that you are able to withstand the kingdom of the Lord, which he possesseth by the sons of David, and you have a great multitude of people, and golden calves, which Jeroboam hath made you for gods.

Hosea 8:4,5 They have reigned, but not by me: they have been princes, and I knew not: of their silver and their gold they have made idols to themselves, that they might perish. . . .

Hosea 10:5 The inhabitants of Samaria have worshipped the calf of Bethaven: for the people thereof have mourned over it, and the wardens of its temple that rejoiced over it in its glory because it is departed from it.

Hosea 13:2 And now they have sinned more and more: and they have made to themselves a molten thing of their silver as the likeness of idols: the whole is the work of craftsmen: to these that say: Sacrifice men, ye that adore calves.

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Exodus 32:8 They have quickly strayed from the way which thou didst shew them: and they have made to themselves a molten calf, and have adored it, and sacrificing victims to it, have said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

Judges 17:3,4 So he restored them to his mother, who said to him: I have consecrated and vowed this silver to the Lord, that my son may receive it at my hand, and make a graven and a molten god; so now I deliver it to thee. . . .

Nehemiah 9:18 Yea when they had made also to themselves a molten calf, and had said: This is thy God, that brought thee out of Egypt: and had committed great blasphemies:

Isaiah 40:18,19 To whom then have you likened God? or what image will you make for him? . . .

Romans 1:21-23 Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God or given thanks: but became vain in their thoughts. And their foolish heart was darkened. . . .

which brought

Exodus 32:1,8 And the people seeing that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, gathering together against Aaron, said: Arise, make us gods, that may go before us: For as to this Moses, the man that brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has befallen him. . . .

Exodus 20:2 I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Context
The Golden Calf
3And the people did what he had commanded, bringing the earrings to Aaron. 4And when he had received them, he fashioned them by founders' work, and made of them a molten calf. And they said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.5And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it, and made proclamation by a crier's voice, saying To morrow is the solemnity of the Lord.…
Cross References
Acts 7:41
And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifices to the idol and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

1 Corinthians 10:7
Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them, as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.

Exodus 32:3
And the people did what he had commanded, bringing the earrings to Aaron.

Exodus 32:5
And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it, and made proclamation by a crier's voice, saying To morrow is the solemnity of the Lord.

Exodus 32:7
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get thee down: thy people, which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, hath sinned.

Exodus 32:24
And I said to them: Which of you hath any gold? and they took and brought it to me; and I cast it into the fire, and this calf came out.

Exodus 32:35
The Lord therefore struck the people for the guilt, on occasion of the calf which Aaron had made.

Deuteronomy 9:16
And saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made to yourselves a molten calf, and had quickly forsaken his way, which he had shewn you:

1 Kings 12:28
And finding out a device, he made two golden calves, and said to them: Go ye up no more to Jerusalem: Behold thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

2 Kings 10:20
And he said: Proclaim a festival for Baal. And he called,

Nehemiah 9:18
Yea when they had made also to themselves a molten calf, and had said: This is thy God, that brought thee out of Egypt: and had committed great blasphemies:

Psalm 106:19
They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven thing.

Isaiah 30:22
And thou shalt defile the plates of thy graven things of silver, and the garment of thy molten things of gold, and shalt cast them away as the uncleanness of a menstruous woman. Thou shalt say to it: Get thee hence.

Ezekiel 23:8
Moreover also she did not forsake her fornications which she had committed in Egypt: for they also lay with her in her youth, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured out their fornication upon her.

Exodus 32:3
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