EXODUS 32:20 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.”
And he took the calf the people had made and burned it in the fire; then he ground it to powder, scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it. The destruction of the golden calf is comprehensive: burned, ground, scattered, drunk. Making the people drink the powdered idol is a public humiliation — they consume the god they created. Numbers 5:17–28 uses a similar drink test for suspected adultery. The golden calf apostasy is Israel's spiritual adultery against God, and the dissolution of the calf into water that the people drink is the covenant adultery test applied at national scale. What was worshipped is consumed; what was declared god becomes contaminated water.
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