Exodus 32:3

All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron [Light-bringer].

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Aaron [Light-bringer] said to them, “Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me.”

4He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, “These are your deities, Israel [God prevails], which brought you up out of the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery].”

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Cross References

Isaiah 40:19A workman has cast an image, 2 and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, 2 and casts silver chains for it. 1

Matthew Henry on Exodus 32:2-7

The Golden Calf. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. 2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. 3 And all the people brake… Read the whole commentary →

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