Bible Dictionary: Calf of Gold: Making of a Turning Aside from the Divine Command

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Exodus 32:8
They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be your gods, O Israel, which have brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
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Deuteronomy 9:12,16
And the LORD said to me, Arise, get you down quickly from hence; for your people which you have 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.
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Faustus States his Objections to the Morality of the Law and the ...
... the truth the symbolic rites are set aside, that the ... his servants, whether righteous
or sinful, making no proper ... also corrupt their minds by turning them away ...
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Letter Lxvi. To Pammachius.
... Thus the apostle refrains from making virginity a positive duty ... [1988] Abraham was
rich in gold and silver ... his own shoulders he brought home a fat calf from the ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter lxvi to pammachius.htm

Barriers Broken Down
... and it showed me that I was making a mistake. ... is nothing said about killing the fatted
calf for the ... my own righteousness." There is a treasure of gold, and the ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 37 1891/barriers broken down.htm

Paul's Departure and Crown;
... the least there appears any swerving or turning aside from the ... 4:8-13); that is,
to the complete making up of ... A horse that is loaden with gold and pearls all ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/pauls departure and crown.htm

The Gods of Egypt
... daily saluting Ra." The expression "sucking calf of pure mouth ... between Thot, Sibu,
and Nuit, making Thot the ... from a bronze statuette incrusted with gold, in the ...
/.../chapter ii the gods of egypt.htm

The Tabernacle of the Most High
... is no rejoicing, no killing of the fatted calf, no dancing ... a few disciples of Christ,
who, after making a profession ... If we had put gold and silver there, it is ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 5 1859/the tabernacle of the most.htm

The Hebrews and the Philistines --Damascus
... of these animal forms was that of a calf or bull ... were possessed of a considerable
quantity of gold, which they ... his captors, but while they were making merry at ...
/.../chapter iiithe hebrews and the.htm

The Nile and Egypt
... that which thy hand formeth were of gold"or in ... joint and the muscles of the calf
are strongly ... occupying herself in cooking and weaving, making clothing and ...
/.../chapter i the nile and egypt.htm

The Rise of the Assyrian Empire
... sculpture in ivory, engraving on gems, and glass-making. ... in a thicket and suckling
her calf, the sacred ... or displaying superior taste"such as gold or silver ...
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The Saints' Privilege and Profit;
... a sheep, a bull, an ox, or calf, to Christ ... before God in his high priest's robes,
making continual intercession ... had on their heads crowns of gold' (Revelation 4 ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the saints privilege and profit.htm

Subtopics

Calf

Calf Image

Calf of Gold was Made of the Ornaments of the Women

Calf of Gold was Made: After an Egyptian Model

Calf of Gold was Made: To Go Before the Congregation

Calf of Gold was Made: To Represent God

Calf of Gold: An Altar Built Before

Calf of Gold: Destroyed by Moses

Calf of Gold: Fashioned With a Graven Tool

Calf of Gold: Made on Account of the Delay of Moses in the Mount

Calf of Gold: Making of a Forgetting of God