KJV King James Version
They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
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Psalm 106:19
They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.
WEB World English Bible
They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped a molten image.
ASV American Standard Version
They made a calf in Horeb, And worshipped a molten image.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
They make a calf in Horeb, And bow themselves to a molten image,
Surrounding context — Psalm 106
16 They envied Moses also in the camp, [and] Aaron the saint of the LORD.
17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
18 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
19 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
20 Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
21 They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, [and] terrible things by the Red sea.
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Exodus 32:35And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.Exodus 32:4-8And he received [them] at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These [be] thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.Acts 7:41And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.1 Corinthians 10:7Neither be ye idolaters, as [were] some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.Nehemiah 9:18Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This [is] thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;Deuteronomy 9:12-16And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted [themselves]; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.Deuteronomy 9:8Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.Deuteronomy 9:21And 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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