Exo 32:4-8, 31-32, Deu 9:12-16, Psa 106:19-23, Eze 20:7-44 | ESV | STEP | And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden calf . And they said , These are your gods , O Israel , who brought you up out of the land of Egypt !

4 ^aAnd he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden ^{▼▼Hebrew cast metal; also verse 8} calf. And they said, ^c“These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!” 5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it. And Aaron ^dmade a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the Lord.” 6 And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And ^ethe people sat down to eat and drink and rose up ^fto play.

7 And the Lord said to Moses, ^g“Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have ^hcorrupted themselves. 8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way that ⁱI commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’”

Exodus 32:31-32

31 So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Alas, ^jthis people has sinned a great sin. They have ^kmade for themselves gods of gold. 32 But now, if ^lyou will forgive their sin—but if not, please ^mblot me out of ⁿyour book that you have written.”

Deuteronomy 9:12-16

12 Then the Lord said to me, ^o‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have ^pturned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them; they have made themselves a metal image.’

The Golden Calf

13 ^q“Furthermore, the Lord said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and behold, it is ^ra stubborn people. 14 ^sLet me alone, that I may destroy them and ^tblot out their name from under heaven. And ^uI will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’ 15 ^vSo I turned and came down from the mountain, and ^wthe mountain was burning with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. 16 And ^xI looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God. You had made yourselves a golden ^{▼▼Hebrew cast metal} calf. ^zYou had turned aside quickly from the way that the Lord had commanded you.

Psalms 106:19-23

19 They ^aamade a calf in Horeb
and worshiped a metal image.
20 They ^abexchanged the glory of God ^{▼▼Hebrew exchanged their glory}
for the image of an ox that eats grass.
21 They ^adforgot God, their Savior,
who had done great things in Egypt,
22 wondrous works in ^aethe land of Ham,
and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
23 Therefore ^afhe said he would destroy them—
had not Moses, his ^agchosen one,
^ahstood in the breach before him,
to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

Ezekiel 20:7-44

7 And I said to them, ' ^aiCast away the detestable things ^ajyour eyes feast on, every one of you, and do not defile yourselves with ^akthe idols of Egypt; ^alI am the Lord your God.' 8 ^amBut they rebelled against me and were not willing to listen to me. ^anNone of them cast away the detestable things their eyes feasted on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt.

“Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them ^aoand spend my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. 9 ^apBut I acted ^aqfor the sake of my name, ^arthat it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, ^asin whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt. 10 ^atSo I led them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness. 11 ^auI gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, ^avby which, if a person does them, he shall live. 12 Moreover, I gave them ^awmy Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, ^axthat they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them. 13 ^ayBut the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. ^azThey did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; ^baand my Sabbaths they greatly profaned.

^bb“Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them. 14 But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, ^bcin whose sight I had brought them out. 15 Moreover, ^bdI swore to them in the wilderness ^bethat I would not bring them into the land that I had given them, a land ^bfflowing with milk and honey, ^bgthe most glorious of all lands, 16 because they rejected my rules and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; ^bhfor their heart went after their idols. 17 Nevertheless, ^bimy eye spared them, and I did not destroy them or ^bjmake a full end of them in the wilderness.

18 “And I said to ^bktheir children in the wilderness, 'Do not walk ^blin the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, ^bmnor defile yourselves with their idols. 19 ^bnI am the Lord your God; ^bowalk in my statutes, and be careful to obey my rules, 20 and ^bpkeep my Sabbaths holy that ^bqthey may be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.' 21 ^brBut the children ^bsrebelled against me. ^btThey did not walk in my statutes and were not careful to obey my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths.

^bu“Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness. 22 ^bvBut I withheld my hand ^bwand acted for the sake of my name, ^bxthat it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out. 23 ^byMoreover, ^bzI swore to them in the wilderness ^cathat I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries, 24 because they had not obeyed my rules, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, ^cband their eyes were set on their fathers’ idols. 25 ^ccMoreover, I gave them statutes that were not good and rules by which they could not have life, 26 and I defiled them through ^cdtheir very gifts ^cein their offering up all their firstborn, that I might devastate them. I did it ^cfthat they might know that I am the Lord.

27 “Therefore, ^cgson of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: In this also your fathers blasphemed me, by ^chdealing treacherously with me. 28 For when I had brought them into the land that ^ciI swore to give them, then wherever they saw ^cjany high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and there they presented ^ckthe provocation of their offering; there they sent up their pleasing aromas, and there they poured out their drink offerings. 29 (I said to them, ^cl'What is the high place to which you go?' So its name is called Bamah ^{▼▼ Bamah means high place} to this day.)

30 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: ^cnWill you defile yourselves after the manner of your fathers and go ^cowhoring after their detestable things? 31 When you present your gifts and ^cpoffer up your children in fire, ^{▼▼Hebrew and make your children pass through the fire} you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And ^crshall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? ^csAs I live, declares the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.

32 ^ct“What is in your mind shall never happen—the thought, ^cu‘Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, ^cvand worship wood and stone.’

The Lord Will Restore Israel

33 ^cw“As I live, declares the Lord God, ^cxsurely with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and ^cywith wrath poured out I will be king over you. 34 ^czI will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out. 35 ^daAnd I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, ^dband there I will enter into judgment with you ^dcface to face. 36 ^ddAs I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord God. 37 I will make you ^depass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant. 38 ^dfI will purge out the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against me. ^dgI will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, ^dhbut they shall not enter the land of Israel. ^diThen you will know that I am the Lord.

39 “As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord God: ^djGo serve every one of you his idols, now and hereafter, if you will not listen to me; ^dkbut my holy name you shall no more profane with your gifts and your idols.

40 ^dl“For on my holy mountain, the mountain height of Israel, declares the Lord God, there ^dmall the house of Israel, all of them, shall serve me in the land. ^dnThere I will accept them, and there I will require your contributions and the choicest of your gifts, with all your sacred offerings. 41 As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when ^doI bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And ^dpI will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations. 42 ^dqAnd you shall know that I am the Lord, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the country that ^drI swore to give to your fathers. 43 ^dsAnd there you shall remember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, ^dtand you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed. 44 And you shall know that I am the Lord, ^duwhen I deal with you for my name’s sake, ^dvnot according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt deeds, O house of Israel, declares the Lord God.”