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How much they insulted you, LORD! <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/nehemiah/9.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Even when they had cast an image of a calf for themselves and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed great blasphemies,<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/nehemiah/9.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />not even when they made an idol shaped like a calf and insulted you by claiming, "This is the god who rescued us from Egypt." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/nehemiah/9.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Though they made for themselves a molten calf, and proclaimed, ‘Here is your God who brought you up from Egypt,’ and were guilty of great insults, <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/nehemiah/9.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Yea when they had made also to themselves a molten calf, and had said: This is thy God, that brought thee out of Egypt: and had committed great blasphemies:<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Yea when they had made also to themselves a molten calf, and had said: This is thy God, that brought thee out of Egypt: and had committed great blasphemies:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/32-4.htm">Exodus 32:4-8,31,32</a> And when he had received them, he fashioned them by founders' work, and made of them a molten calf. And they said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/9-12.htm">Deuteronomy 9:12-16</a> And said to me: Arise, and go down from hence quickly: for thy people, which thou hast brought out of Egypt, have quickly forsaken the way that thou hast shewn them, and have made to themselves a molten idol. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/106-19.htm">Psalm 106:19-23</a> They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven thing. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/20-7.htm">Ezekiel 20:7</a> And I said to them: Let every man cast away the scandals of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.</p><p class="hdg">etc.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/nehemiah/9.htm">The People Confess Their Sins</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">17</span>And they would not hear, and they remembered not thy wonders which thou hadst done for them. And they hardened their necks, and gave the head to return to their bondage, as it were by contention. But thou, a forgiving God, gracious, and merciful, longsuffering, and full of compassion, didst not forsake them. <span class="reftext">18</span><span class="highl">Yea when they had made also to themselves a molten calf, and had said: This is thy God, that brought thee out of Egypt: and had committed great blasphemies:</span><span class="reftext">19</span>Yet thou, in thy many mercies, didst not leave them in the desert: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way, and the pillar of fire by night to shew them the way by which they should go.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/32-4.htm">Exodus 32:4</a></span><br />And when he had received them, he fashioned them by founders' work, and made of them a molten calf. And they said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/32-31.htm">Exodus 32:31</a></span><br />And returning to the Lord, he said: I beseech thee: this people hath sinned a heinous sin, and they have made to themselves gods of gold: either forgive them this trespass,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../nehemiah/9-26.htm">Nehemiah 9:26</a></span><br />But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and threw thy law behind their backs: and they killed thy prophets, who admonished them earnestly to return to thee: and they were guilty of great blasphemies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../amos/5-25.htm">Amos 5:25</a></span><br />Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div 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