4He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, |These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.|


In Context

1 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, |Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.|

2 Aaron said to them, |Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me.|

3 All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

4 He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, |These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.|

5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, |Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh.|

6 They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

Exodus 32:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

32:4And 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

32:4He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

32:4And when he had received them, he fashioned them by founders' work, and made of them a molten calf. And they said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

32:4And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf: and they said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

32:4And he took them out of their hand, and fashioned it with a chisel and made of it a molten calf: and they said, This is thy god, Israel, who has brought thee up out of the land of Egypt!

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

32:4And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

32:4And 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 are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

32:4and he receiveth from their hand, and doth fashion it with a graving tool, and doth make it a molten calf, and they say, 'These thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

32:4And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a engraving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.