King James Version
Exodus 32:3 in the King James Version says “And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 32 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.”
Exodus 32:3 · KJV
And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“And all the people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“the golden”
H2091gold, figuratively, something gold-colored (i.e., yellow), as oil, a clear sky
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“which were in their ears”
H241broadness. i.e., (concrete) the ear (from its form in man)
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