Exodus 32:2
Aaron replied to them, “All right, I will do that, but tell your wives and your sons and your daughters to take off all their gold earrings and bring them to me.”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
3So the people did that. They took off all their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron.
Cross References
Genesis 24:22Finally, after the camels finished drinking, the servant took out a gold nose ring that weighed ◄two ounces/6 grams►, and two large gold bracelets for her arms, and gave them to Rebekah and told her to put them on.
Exodus 12:35The Egyptians urged the Israeli people to leave their country quickly. They said, “ If you do not do that, we will all die!”
Judges 8:24Then he said, “I request only one thing. I request that each of you give me one earring from the things you captured after the battle.” [All the men descended from Ishmael wore gold earrings.]
Ezekiel 16:11It was as though [MET] I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace around your neck. Those things all had nice jewels fastened to them.
Hosea 2:8But they do not realize that I, Yahweh, am the one who gave them grain and wine and olive oil; I am the one who gave them silver and gold which they used to worship Baal.
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 →