Exodus 32:3
New International Version
So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron.

New Living Translation
All the people took the gold rings from their ears and brought them to Aaron.

English Standard Version
So all the people took off the rings of gold that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.

Berean Standard Bible
Then all the people took off their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron.

King James Bible
And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.

New King James Version
So all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

New American Standard Bible
So all the people tore off the gold rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.

NASB 1995
Then all the people tore off the gold rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.

NASB 1977
Then all the people tore off the gold rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then all the people tore off the gold rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.

Amplified Bible
So all the people took off the gold rings that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.

Christian Standard Bible
So all the people took off the gold rings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So all the people took off the gold rings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.

American Standard Version
And all the people brake off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Ahron said to them, “Remove the earrings of gold that are in the ears of your wives and of your sons and of your daughters, and bring to me.”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And all the people took off the golden ear-rings that were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

Contemporary English Version
Everybody took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the people did what he had commanded, bringing the earrings to Aaron.

English Revised Version
And all the people brake off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So all the people took off their gold earrings and handed them to Aaron.

Good News Translation
So all the people took off their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron.

International Standard Version
All the people tore off the gold rings that were in their ears and brought them to him.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And all the people broke off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.

Literal Standard Version
and all the people break off the rings of gold which [are] in their ears, and bring [them] to Aaron,

Majority Standard Bible
Then all the people took off their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron.

New American Bible
So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron.

NET Bible
So all the people broke off the gold earrings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.

New Revised Standard Version
So all the people took off the gold rings from their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

New Heart English Bible
All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

Webster's Bible Translation
And all the people broke off the golden ear-rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

World English Bible
All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

Young's Literal Translation
and all the people themselves break off the rings of gold which are in their ears, and bring in unto Aaron,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Golden Calf
2So Aaron told them, “Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me.” 3Then all the people took off their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron. 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!”…

Cross References
Genesis 24:22
And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.

Genesis 35:4
So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.

Exodus 32:2
So Aaron told them, "Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me."

Exodus 32:4
He 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!"


Treasury of Scripture

And all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

Judges 17:3,4
And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee…

Isaiah 40:19,20
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains…

Isaiah 46:6
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

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Exodus 32
1. The people in the absence of Moses, caused Aaron to make a calf
7. God informs Moses, who intercedes for Israel, and prevails
15. Moses comes down with the tablets
19. He breaks them
20. He destroys the calf
22. Aaron's excuse for himself
25. Moses causes the idolaters to be slain
30. He prays for the people














(3) All the people brake off the golden earrings.--Aaron had miscalculated the strength of the people's fanaticism. Not the slightest resistance was offered to his requirement, not the slightest objection made. "All the people," with one accord, surrendered their earrings. Some measure is hereby afforded of the intensity of the feeling which was moving the people and urging them to substitute an idolatrous worship for the abstract and purely spiritual religion which had reigned supreme since their departure from Egypt.

Verse 3. - All the people broke off the golden ear-rings. Thus, as is supposed, disappointing Aaron, who had counted on the refusal of the women to part with their finery, and the reluctance of the men to compel them. Had ear-rings been still regarded as amulets (Genesis 1.s.c.) it is not likely that they would have been so readily given up.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Then all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the people
הָעָ֔ם (hā·‘ām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

took off
וַיִּתְפָּֽרְקוּ֙ (way·yiṯ·pā·rə·qū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 6561: To break off, crunch, to deliver

their gold
הַזָּהָ֖ב (haz·zā·hāḇ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2091: Gold, something gold-colored, as oil, a clear sky

earrings
נִזְמֵ֥י (niz·mê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 5141: A ring (worn as an ornament)

and brought
וַיָּבִ֖יאוּ (way·yā·ḇî·’ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

them to
אֶֽל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

Aaron.
אַהֲרֹֽן׃ (’a·hă·rōn)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 175: Aaron -- an elder brother of Moses


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