Exodus 32:4 — King James Version← Study notes
“And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.”
Exodus 32:4 — Hebrew Interlinear
Hebrew · Exodus 32:416 words
וַיִּקַּחwayiqaḥAnd take
מִיָּדָםmîdāmFrom hand
וַיָּצַרwayāṣarAnd mould
אֹתוֹʾōtwō—
בַּחֶרֶטbaḥereṭIn chisel
וַיַּעֲשֵׂהוּwayaʿăśēhûAnd do
עֵגֶלʿēgelCalf
מַסֵּכָהmasēḵāhPouring
וַיֹּאמְרוּwayōʾmərûAnd say
אֵלֶּהʾēlehThese
אֱלֹהֶיךָʾĕlōheyḵāGod
יִשְׂרָאֵלyiśərāʾēlHe will rule as God
אֲשֶׁרʾăšerWho
הֶעֱלוּךָheʿĕlûḵāAscend
מֵאֶרֶץmēʾereṣFrom earth
מִצְרָיִםmiṣərāyimMitsrajim
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