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Yes, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt, and had committed awful blasphemies;
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The Gravity of the Golden Calf
Commentators explain that the creation of the molten calf was not a minor error but a "great provocation." It was a direct act of idolatry, with one scholar noting its likely imitation of the Egyptian bull-god, Apis. This specific sin is recalled in the prayer to emphasize the profound depth of Israel's rebellion against the very God who had just rescued them.
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Nehemiah
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Reformed Baptist
Yea, when they had made them a molten calf In imitation of the Apis, or ox of the Egyptians:
and …
Presbyterian
The summary of their prayers we have here on record. Much more, no doubt, was said. Whatever ability we have to do anything in the way of duty, we …