OLD TESTAMENT

Deuteronomy 9:21

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I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.

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Verse 21. Sin. The Scripture designates by this name not only the evil action, but also the propensity to it, the object, matter, occasion, punishment, or victim of sin.—The calf. He broke the idol in pieces, and then ground it small. Exodus 32:20. Calmet.

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