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The Adoration of the Golden Calf – picture from the Hortus deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg (12th century). According to the Torah and the Quran, the golden calf (Hebrew: עֵגֶל הַזָּהָב, romanized: ʿēḡel hazzāhāḇ) was a cult image made by the Israelites when Moses went up to Mount Sinai.
It depicts the adoration of the golden calf by the Israelites, from chapter 32 of the Book of Exodus.It was made as part of a pair of paintings (the other being The Crossing of the Red Sea) commissioned by Amadeo dal Pozzo, Marchese di Voghera of Turin, a cousin to Cassiano dal Pozzo, Poussin's main sponsor in Rome.
After the Exodus, he encourages the Israelites to blame Moses when the Egyptians come after them at the Red Sea, and he leads the Israelites in their worship of the golden calf. He is one of those swallowed up in the earth when Moses ( Charlton Heston ) smashes the tablets of the Ten Commandments in a rage, after discovering the Israelites ...
Scholars relate Jeroboam's calves to the golden calf made by Aaron of Exodus 32. Both include a nearly identical dedication formula ("These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt", Exodus 32:8). This episode in Exodus is "widely regarded as a tendentious narrative against the Bethel calves". [63]
According to the biblical narrative, the first set of tablets, inscribed by the finger of God, (Exodus 31:18) were smashed by Moses when he was enraged by the sight of the Children of Israel worshiping a golden calf (Exodus 32:19) and the second were later chiseled out by Moses and rewritten by God (Exodus 34:1).
A midrash taught that when God so pleased, God called for atonement for the Golden Calf through a male agent, as in Exodus 29:1, with regard to the investiture of the Priests, "Take one young bullock (פַּר , par)," and when God so pleased, God called for that atonement through a female agent, as in Numbers 19:2, "That they bring you a ...
The Dem vying for the House seat vacated by former New York Rep. Elise Stefanik once ridiculed his upstate constituents as too lazy and too boozed-up to work for him compared to migrants ...
The Adoration of the Golden Calf by Nicolas Poussin. Erev Rav (Hebrew: עֵרֶב רַב ‘êreḇ raḇ "mixed multitude") was a group that included Egyptians and others who had joined the Tribes of Israel on the Exodus. [1] According to Jewish tradition, they were accepted by Moses as an integral part of the people.