Nehemiah 9:18 References

18 "Even when they amade for themselves A calf of molten metal And said, 'This is your God Who brought you up from Egypt,' And committed great blasphemies,

a Exodus 32:4-8, Exodus 32:31


Exodus 32

4 He took this from their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool and made it into a amolten calf; and they said, "This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt."
5 Now when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation and said, "Tomorrow shall be a feast to the Lord."
6 So the next day they rose early and aoffered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and bthe people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up cto play.
7 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, "Go down at once, for your people, whom ayou brought up from the land of Egypt, have bcorrupted themselves.
8 "They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. aThey have made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it and bhave sacrificed to it and said, 'cThis is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!'"

Exodus 32

31 Then Moses returned to the Lord, and said, "Alas, this people has committed a great sin, and they have made a agod of gold for themselves.