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Nehemiah 9:18

King James Version (KJV)

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Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This [is] thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;

Nehemiah 9:18 — KJV

Theological / Devotional

A molten calf. See Exodus 32:4.

Great provocations. A better translation would be “great blasphemies,” as the same word is rendered in Ezekiel 35:12.

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