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Psalm 106:19–20

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106:19They made an image of a calf at Horeb,

and worshiped a metal idol.

106:20They traded their majestic God27

for the image of an ox that eats grass.

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Footnotes

  1. 27 Heb “their glory.” According to an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition, the text originally read “his glory” or “my glory.” In Jer 2:11 the Lord states that his people (Israel) exchanged “their glory” (a reference to the Lord) for worthless idols.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

They made a calf in Horeb

and worshiped a metal image.

They exchanged the glory of God

for the image of an ox that eats grass.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

At Horeb they made a calf

and worshiped an idol cast from metal.

They exchanged their glorious God

for an image of a bull, which eats grass.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

At Horeb they made a calf

and worshiped the cast metal image.

They exchanged their glory

for the image of a grass-eating ox.

NLTNew Living Translation

The people made a calf at Mount Sinai;

they bowed before an image made of gold.

They traded their glorious God

for a statue of a grass-eating bull.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

They made a calf at Horeb

and bowed down to a cast image.

And so they exchanged their glory

for an image of an ox that eats grass.

KJV 1900King James Version

They made a calf in Horeb,

And worshipped the molten image.

Thus they changed their glory

Into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.