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Nehemiah 9:18

Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and when they committed terrible blasphemies,

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ASV

Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;

KJV

Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;

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15 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
אַ֗ף'AfevenH637 →
כִּֽי־ki-forH3588 →
עָשׂ֤וּ'a.Suthey had madeH6213 →
לָהֶם֙la.Hemfor themselves
עֵ֣גֶל'E.gela calf ofH5695 →
מַסֵּכָ֔הma.se.Khahmolten metalH4541 →
וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּvai.Yo.me.Ruand they had saidH559 →
זֶ֣הzehthisH2088 →
אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ'e.lo.Hei.kha[is] god yourH430 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר'a.SherwhoH834 →
הֶעֶלְךָ֖he.'el.Khahe brought up youH5927 →
מִמִּצְרָ֑יִםmi.mitz.Ra.yimfrom EgyptH4714 →
וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֔וּvai.ya.'a.Suand they had doneH6213 →
נֶאָצ֖וֹתne.'a.TzotblasphemiesH5007 →
גְּדֹלֽוֹת׃ge.do.LotgreatH1419 →

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Exodus 32:4He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”Amos 5:25Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?Nehemiah 9:26But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.Psalms 106:19–23At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.Acts 7:41At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.Exodus 32:4–8He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”Exodus 32:31–32So Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made gods of gold for themselves.Deuteronomy 9:12–16And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.”Ezekiel 20:7–44And I said to them: ‘Each of you must throw away the abominations before his eyes, and you must not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’Psalms 106:19At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.

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