Study it in the app“And he took it from their hand, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a calf of cast metal. And they said, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!””
And he took itוַיִּקַּחfrom their hand,מִיָּדָםand fashionedוַיָּצַרitאֹתוֹwith an engraving tool,בַּחֶרֶטand made itוַיַּעֲשֵׂהוּa calfעֵגֶלof cast metal.מַסֵּכָהAnd they said,וַיֹּאמְרוּ“Theseאֵלֶּהare your gods,אֱלֹהֶיךָIsrael,יִשְׂרָאֵלwhoאֲשֶׁרbrought you upהֶעֱלוּךָout of the landמֵאֶרֶץof Egypt!”מִצְרָיִם
accept
To accept what someone gives, such as teaching or correction.
Where else “yikach” appearshand
The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.
Where else “yada” appearsmold
To mold, as God molded man from dust.
Where else “yatsar” appearsengraving tool
Chisel, engraving tool; also a stylus for writing (Isaiah 8:1).
Where else “cheret” appearsmake
To build or create something.
Where else “yaase” appearscalf
Calf: a young bull.
Where else “egel” appearscast image
An idol made of melted metal.
Where else “masecha” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomru” appearsgods
The gods of other peoples.
Where else “elohe” appearsIsrael
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appearsbring up
To make someone go up: "I led you up from Egypt".
Where else “heelu” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appearsEgypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayim” appears“These are your gods” can also be translated “This is your Elohim”: the Hebrew word is the same. Aaron calls the feast “a feast to YHWH” (verse 5); it can be understood that they wanted to represent YHWH with an image, which he had forbidden (Exodus 20:4). Stephen recalls it in Acts 7:39-41.
Egypt
Today: Egypt (Nile Valley)
A country in northeast Africa along the Nile River, southwest of Israel.
Joseph was sold into it, and his family went down to live there (Gen 37:28; 46:6). God brought Israel out of it with a mighty hand (Exod 12:41). The child Jesus fled there with his parents (Matt 2:14).
3So all the people tore off the gold earrings that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.
4 · This verse (above)
5When Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron proclaimed and said, “A feast to YHWH tomorrow!”
