And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Aaron took the gold from them and shaped it with an engraving tool, making it into a statue of a calf. Then the people said, 'These are your gods, Israel, who brought you out of Egypt!'
The writer is describing how Aaron created a golden calf idol that the Israelites then worshiped as the god who rescued them from Egypt.
📚 Historical Context
In the book of Exodus, the Israelites had recently been freed from slavery in Egypt and were waiting at the base of Mount Sinai while Moses received the Ten Commandments from God on the mountain. Growing impatient after forty days without Moses, the people turned to Aaron and demanded he create an idol, leading him to melt their gold earrings into a golden calf. This act represented a shocking betrayal of their covenant with God, as they attributed their deliverance from Egypt to this false idol instead of the one true God.
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