Exodus 32:3 “Then all the people took off their gold earrings and brought them to A…”

Exodus 32:3

Then all the people took off their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.

World English Bible

All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

American Standard Version

And all the people brake off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then all ye people pluckt from them selues the golden earings, which were in their eares, and they brought them vnto Aaron.

Darby Translation

Then all the people broke off the golden rings that were in their ears, and brought [them] to Aaron.

Young's Literal Translation

and all the people themselves break off the rings of gold which [are] in their ears, and bring in unto Aaron,

Bible in Basic English

And all the people took the gold rings from their ears and gave them to Aaron.

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Cross references

“And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.”

Isaiah 46:6 Jeremiah 10:9 Judges 17:3 Judges 17:4 Isaiah 40:19 Isaiah 40:20

Isaiah 46:6 · BSB

They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.

Jeremiah 10:9 · BSB

Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz— the work of a craftsman from the hands of a goldsmith. Their clothes are blue and purple, all fashioned by skilled workers.

Judges 17:3 · BSB

And when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I wholly dedicate the silver to the LORD for my son’s benefit, to make a graven image and a molten idol. Therefore I will now return…

Judges 17:4 · BSB

So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.

Isaiah 40:19 · BSB

To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?

Isaiah 40:20 · BSB

One lacking such an offering chooses wood that will not rot. He seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2So Aaron told them, “Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me.”

4He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

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