golden calf in English

noun
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(in the Bible) an image of gold in the shape of a calf, made by Aaron in response to the Israelites' plea for a god while they awaited Moses' return from Mount Sinai, where he was receiving the Ten Commandments (Exod. 32).
While Moses was on Mount Sinai for 40 days receiving the laws for Israel, the Israelites persuaded Aaron to make a golden calf , and they worshipped it.

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1. The Golden Calf

2. How did the Israelites sin in connection with the golden calf?

3. ‘The bad people who worshiped the golden calf must die,’ Moses says.

4. Then the Israelites have a big party, and worship the golden calf.

5. 13 After they left Egypt, the Israelites made a golden calf to worship.

6. She can meet her betrothed before she is bartered like a golden calf.

7. They have forgotten my laws and are bowing down to a golden calf.’

8. When the people do so, Aaron melts them down and makes a golden calf.

9. (Ex 32:1) Aaron acceded and cooperated with these rebellious ones in making a golden calf statue.

10. Upon returning, Moses found this crowd of rebels eating, drinking, dancing, and bowing down to a golden calf!

11. Moses informed him that he would be banished and that they would burn the golden calf and spread its dust into the sea.

12. Mentioned in Exodus 32 and I Kings 12 in the Old Testament, worship of the golden Calf is seen as a supreme act of

13. 32:14) After witnessing the unrestrained behavior of the people —shouting, singing, and dancing before an idol— Moses crushed the golden calf into powder.

14. Levite, member of a group of clans of religious functionaries in ancient Israel who apparently were given a special religious status, Conjecturally for slaughtering idolaters of the golden calf during the time of Moses (Ex

15. Golden Calf, idol worshipped by the Hebrews during the period of the Exodus from Egypt in the 13th century bc and during the age of Jeroboam I, king of Israel, in the 10th century bc

16. Levite, member of a group of clans of religious functionaries in ancient Israel who apparently were given a special religious status, Conjecturally for slaughtering idolaters of the golden calf during the time of Moses (Ex

17. 84 And with my servant Almon Babbitt, there are many things with which I am not pleased; behold, he aspireth to establish his counsel instead of the counsel which I have ordained, even that of the Presidency of my Church; and he setteth up a a golden calf for the worship of my people.