The Bible In Paintings: THE GOLDEN CALF, Part 1

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The Bible In Paintings 2
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE

E X O D U S
CHAPTER 32

When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.”

Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.” So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”

Aaron built an altar in front of the calf and announced, “Tomorrow there will be a festival to the LORD.” So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings. Afterward they sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt. They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.’ ”

Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain. And he took the calf they 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.

He said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you led them into such great sin?”

“Do not be angry, my lord,” Aaron answered. “You know how prone these people are to evil. They said to me, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.’ So I told them, ‘Whoever has any gold jewelry, take it off.’ Then they gave me the gold, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf!”

New International Version ©1984, Abrdgd, EMPHASES Added

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NICOLAS POUSSIN
"The Adoration of the Golden Calf"

2
FRANS FRANCKEN II
"Worship of the Golden Calf"

3
BILL BELL
Source

4
TINTORETTO
"The Worship of the Golden Calf"

5
JAMES TISSOT
"Golden Calf"

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FRANCOIS PERRIER
"Adoration of the Golden Calf"

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NICOLAES CLAES CORNELISZ MOEYAERT
"Worship Of The Golden Calf"

8
JAN STEEN
"The Worship of the Golden Calf"

9
HENRI-PAUL MOTTE
"The Israelites Dancing around the Golden Calf"

10
Venetian Master
"The Adoration of the Golden Calf"

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ANTONIO MOLINARI
"Adoration of the Golden Calf"

12
Dutch School
"The Adoration of the Golden Calf"

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ANDREA DI LIONE
"Adoration of the Golden Calf"

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ANDREA VACCARO
"Adoration of the Golden Calf"

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ANDREA DI LEONE
"Adoration of the Golden Calf"

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CLAUDE LORRAIN
"The Adoration of the Golden Calf"

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RAPHAEL
"Adoration of the Golden Calf"

20
MARC CHAGALL
"The Adoration of the Golden Calf"

21
ARTHUR BOYD
"The Golden Calf"

22
DASHA DELONE
"Worshipping the Golden Calf"

23
CECIL B. DEMILLE

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ALEXANDER IVANOV
"The People of Israel Worshipping the Golden Calf"

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HENRI MEYER
"The Golden Calf"

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VIDA KHADEM
"The Golden Calf"

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To be continued…

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[Hebrews 11:6]

IN THE WILDERNESS
MANNA and QUAIL! GOD FEEDS HIS PEOPLE
WATER FROM THE ROCK!
GOD SHOWS OFF AT MOUNT SINAI
GOD GIVES HIS LAW, Part 1
GOD GIVES HIS LAW, Part 2
THE GOLDEN CALF, Part 1
THE GOLDEN CALF, Part 2
S T R U G G L E S
"SHOW ME YOUR GLORY"
THE ARK OF THE COVENANT
THE TABERNACLE
AARON CONSECRATED AS HIGH PRIEST
AARON'S SONS VIOLATE THE LAW

[fulltlt]

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OK, then.

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Good Morning, Dan!

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Mary-Lou! No golden calf for you....

[null and void]

#28 nice touch...

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Human nature doesn’t change....

[left that other site]

That's OK...

I Already Have One.

[delchiante]

Given the pics that have surfaced around the mountain in Saudi Arabia, #9 seems to capture it a little..

#3 and the smiling calf staring right at me.
The artist had some fun with that one

[golux]

Brilliant! And that's a lot of earrings, buddy.

[null and void]

Not much, and never permanently.

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Shoulda known....

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Revelry>>>>>>>>>>>Whimsey

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Actually, now that you’ve prompted the thought, it’s quite the metaphor: we pay plenty for our our idols.

[golux]

Yes indeed.

[etabeta]

Tissot always. #9 by the French artist Motte, and #19 by Raphael. The best, Cecil B. DeMille, beautifully choreographed, high energy, gaiety, movement. Humans have not changed much, always ready to idolize someone or something...

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Thanks so much, Alba.

[ConorMacNessa]

Good morning, Dan! I favor the Poussin, but the Golden Bull of Wall Street is a timely warning to us all.

"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"

"God save all here!"

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Tom, I notice they’ve not erected a bear across that Street, but somehow one seems to show up sooner or later. So it will be for the idolators....