Study it in the app“Even when they made for themselves a calf of cast metal and said, ‘This is your god who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and committed great acts of contempt,”
Israel confesses its stubbornness and recalls that God did not abandon themFaithfulness
Evenאַף כִּיwhen they madeעָשׂוּfor themselvesלָהֶםa calfעֵגֶלof cast metalמַסֵּכָהand said,וַיֹּאמְרוּ‘Thisזֶהisyour godאֱלֹהֶיךָwhoאֲשֶׁרbrought you upהֶעֶלְךָout of Egypt,’מִמִּצְרָיִםand committedוַיַּעֲשׂוּgreatגְּדֹלוֹתacts of contempt,נֶאָצוֹת
make
To build or create something.
Where else “asu” 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” appearsbring up
To make someone go up: "I led you up from Egypt".
Where else “heel” appearsEgypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayim” appearsgreat
Of great size, amount or importance: a river, a city, a king.
Where else “gedolot” appearscontempt
Contempt, insult: words or deeds by which someone is treated as worthless (2 Kings 19:3; Isaiah 37:3). It comes from the verb "despise."
Where else “neatsot” appears“Your god”: the Hebrew word is the same as “Elohim”; here it is in lowercase because it is said of an idol (Exodus 32:4).
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).
17They refused to listen, and did not remember your wonders that you had done with them; and they hardened their neck and appointed a head to return to their servitude in their rebellion. But you are an Eloah of pardons, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, and you did not abandon them.
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19you, in your many mercies, did not abandon them in the wilderness: the pillar of cloud did not depart from over them by day, to lead them on the way, nor the pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should go.
