Nehemiah 9:18 meaning and explanation

Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and when they committed terrible blasphemies,

Nehemiah 9:18, Berean Standard Bible

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These words come from a long prayer the Levites lead after the people confess their sins (Nehemiah 9:1-5). Reciting Israel's story, the prayer reaches the golden calf at Sinai, where the people made an idol and credited it with their rescue from Egypt (Exodus 32).

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