Deuteronomy 9:21

I took your sin, the calf that you had made, and burned it, beat it, and ground it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the stream that came down from the mountain.

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And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

In Context

20Yahweh was very angry with Aaron so as to destroy him; I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

22At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.

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Cross References

Exodus 32:20He took the calf that the people had made, burned it, ground it to powder, and poured it into the water. Then he made the people of Israel drink it.

2 Chronicles 34:7He broke down the altars, beat the Asherah poles and the carved images into powder, and cut apart all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

Isaiah 30:22You will desecrate your carved figures overlaid with silver and your gold cast figures. 1 You will throw them away like a menstrual rag. You will say to them, “Get out of here.” 1

Hosea 8:11For Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin offerings, 1 but they have become altars for committing sins instead. 1

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 9:8-29

Cautions Against Self-Righteousness; Israel Reminded of Their Rebellions. ( b. c. 1451.) 7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the Lord . 8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry with you to have destroyed you. 9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the… Read the whole commentary →

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