Exodus 32:2-4

The Golden Calf

² So Aaron said to them, "Take off the _y rings of gold that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me." ³ So all the people took off the rings of gold that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. ⁴ _z And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden ₁ calf. And they said, _a "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!"

1. Cross References
   Exodus 12:35 - 36
   The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing.
   Judges 8:24 - 27
   And Gideon said to them, "Let me make a request of you: every one of you give me the earrings from his spoil." (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
   
2. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 9:16
   And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God. You had made yourselves a golden calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the Lord had commanded you.
   Nehemiah 9:18
   Even when they had made for themselves a golden calf and said, 'This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,' and had committed great blasphemies.
   Psalms 106:19
   They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped a metal image.
   Acts 7:41
   And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and were rejoicing in the works of their hands.
   Judges 17:3 - 4
   And he restored the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother. And his mother said, "I dedicate the silver to the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a metal image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.
   
3. Cross References
   1 Kings 12:28
   So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, "You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.