Animals
calf in Exodus 32
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This creature shows up in Exodus 32:4: “He received what they handed him, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf. Then they said, “These are your gods,…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real creature in a real place.
Exodus 32:4
“He received what they handed him, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.””
What kids can learn
When you hear calf in Exodus, remember the sentence around it. God put this creature in the story on purpose.
Read Exodus 32:4 again tomorrow and ask what the creature is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Exodus 32:4
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Hereceivedwhattheyhandedhim,fashioneditwithanengravingandmadeitamoltencalf.Thensaid,“TheseareyourIsrael,whichbroughtyouupoutofthelandofEgypt.”