“And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.”
Also I took that sinful thing you had made, the calf, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust and threw the dust into a stream that flowed down the mountain — the calf's destruction mirrors the tablets' destruction and serves as material repudiation of idolatry. The reduction to dust and water-dispersal suggests the complete erasure of the idol's existence.
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