Deuteronomy 9:21
And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
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Gill's Exposition
And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made,.... Which was the object of their sin, which lay in making and worshipping it; see Isa 31:7.
and burnt it with fire, and stamped it; with his feet…
That they might have no pretence to think that God brought them to Canaan for their righteousness, Moses here shows them what a miracle of mercy it was that they had not long ere this been destroyed…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Characteristically expanded, with variations, from Exo 32:20: one item in the latter, and made the children of Israel drink of it, is omitted.
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