Nehemiah 9:18

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“Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and when they committed terrible blasphemies,”

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BSBPD

“Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and when they committed terrible blasphemies,”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`Also, when they have made to themselves a molten calf, and say, this <FI>is<Fi> thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt, and do great despisings,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Nehemiah 9:18 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 32:4He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
  2. Exodus 32:8How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”
  3. Exodus 32:31So Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made gods of gold for themselves.
  4. Deuteronomy 9:12And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.”
  5. Psalms 106:19At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.
  6. Ezekiel 20:7And I said to them: ‘Each of you must throw away the abominations before his eyes, and you must not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’

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