Aaron
Brother of Moses who spoke for him before Pharaoh, made the golden calf, and served as the first high priest of Israel.
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Stephen Recounts Aaron and the Calf
38This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
Moses was with the people gathered in the desert. He was with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai. He was with our fathers too. He received God's living words to pass on to us.
39To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
But our fathers would not obey him. They pushed him away. In their hearts they turned back toward Egypt.
40Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
They said to Aaron, "Make us gods to walk ahead of us. We do not know what happened to Moses, who led us out of Egypt."
41And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
In those days they made a statue of a calf. They offered a gift to that false god. They were happy about what their own hands had made.
The High Priest Called of God as Aaron
1For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:
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2Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
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3And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
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4And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
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5So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.
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6As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
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Every passage here is the King James text. Nothing on this page retells the story; it only puts the pieces in order.