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Deuteronomy 9:21

And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.

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ASV

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

KJV

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.

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חַטַּאתְכֶ֞םcha.tat.Khemsin yourH2403 →
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הָעֵ֗גֶלha.'E.gelthe calfH5695 →
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טָחוֹן֙ta.chOngrinding [it]H2912 →
הֵיטֵ֔בhei.TevwellH3190 →
עַ֥ד'aduntilH5704 →
אֲשֶׁר־'a.Sher-thatH834 →
דַּ֖קdakit was fineH1854 →
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וָֽאַשְׁלִךְ֙va.'ash.liKhand I threwH7993 →
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עֲפָר֔וֹa.fa.Rodust itsH6083 →
אֶל־'el-intoH413 →
הַנַּ֖חַלha.Na.chalthe wadiH5158 →
הַיֹּרֵ֥דhai.yo.Redwhich was coming downH3381 →
מִן־min-fromH4480 →
הָהָֽר׃ha.Harthe mountainH2022 →

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Exodus 32:20Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.Amos 8:14Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.”Isaiah 31:7For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.Deuteronomy 7:5Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.Hosea 10:8The high places of Aven will be destroyed—it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”2 Chronicles 34:7He tore down the altars and Asherah poles, crushed the idols to powder, and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.Isaiah 2:18–21and the idols will vanish completely.Isaiah 30:22So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”Hosea 8:11Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.2 Kings 23:6He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.Psalms 106:19At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.Micah 1:7All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.1 Kings 15:13He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.2 Chronicles 15:16King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.2 Chronicles 34:4Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.2 Kings 21:15because they have done evil in My sight and have provoked Me to anger from the day their fathers came out of Egypt until this day.’”Psalms 78:16He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.1 Corinthians 10:4and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.

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Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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