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Calf of Gold

 

Calf of Gold

Made on account of the delay of Moses in the mount - Ex 32:1

WAS MADE

• Of the ornaments of the women, &c
- Ex 32:2,3
• To represent God
- Ex 32:4,5; Ps 106:20
• After an Egyptian model
- Ac 7:39,41
• To go before the congregation
- Ex 32:1

Molten in the fire - Ex 32:4; Ps 106:19

Fashioned with a graven tool - Ex 32:4

An altar built before - Ex 32:5

Sacrifices offered to - Ex 32:6; Ac 7:41

Worshipped with profane revelry - Ex 32:6,18,19,25; 1Co 10:7

MAKING OF

• A very great sin
- Ex 32:21,30,31
• A forgetting of God
- Ps 106:21
• A turning aside from the divine command
- Ex 32:8; De 9:12,16
• Excited wrath against Aaron
- De 9:20
• Excited wrath against Israel
- Ex 32:10; De 9:14,19
• Caused Moses to break the tables of the testimony
- Ex 32:19; De 9:17
• Israel punished for
- Ex 32:26-29,35

Moses interceded for those who worshipped - Ex 32:11-14,30-34; De 9:18-20

Destroyed by Moses - Ex 32:20; De 9:21

Punishment of those who worshipped a warning to others - 1Co 10:5-7

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