John Gill's Exposition on Deuteronomy 9:21

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, etc.] Which was the object of their sin, which lay in making and worshipping it; (see <233107> Isaiah 31:7) and burnt it with fire, and stamped it; with his feet after it was burnt, to bring it into small pieces: and ground it very small; or, as the Targum of Jonathan, “ground it in a mortar well;” the burnt and broken pieces: even until it was as small as dust; being ground to powder, as in (<023220>Exodus 32:20) and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount; and made the children of Israel to drink of it, as in the previously mentioned place; (see Gill on “<023202>Exodus 32:2”); all this was done before the prayer for Aaron and the people.

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