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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 32:4Hebrew 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
Words read right to left. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Word-by-word meanings

וַיִּקַּחwayiqaḥAnd take
מִיָּדָםmîdāmFrom hand
וַיָּצַרwayāṣarAnd mould
אֹתוֹʾōtwōdirect object marker (no translation)
בַּחֶרֶטbaḥereṭIn chisel
וַיַּעֲשֵׂהוּwayaʿăśēhûAnd do
עֵגֶלʿēgelCalf
מַסֵּכָהmasēḵāhPouring
וַיֹּאמְרוּwayōʾmərûAnd say
אֵלֶּהʾēlehThese
אֱלֹהֶיךָʾĕlōheyḵāGod
יִשְׂרָאֵלyiśərāʾēlHe will rule as God
אֲשֶׁרʾăšerWho
הֶעֱלוּךָheʿĕlûḵāAscend
מֵאֶרֶץmēʾereṣFrom earth
מִצְרָיִםmiṣərāyimMitsrajim

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