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18 Fire burned all their group,
    and it killed those wicked people.[a]
19 At Horeb, the Israelites used gold to make a cow,
    and they worshipped it.
20 They turned away from their great God.
Instead, they worshipped the statue of a cow,
    an animal that eats grass![b]

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Footnotes

  1. 106:18 See Numbers 16:1-40.
  2. 106:20 See Exodus 32. Horeb is another name for Sinai mountain.

18 Fire blazed(A) among their followers;
    a flame consumed the wicked.
19 At Horeb they made a calf(B)
    and worshiped an idol cast from metal.
20 They exchanged their glorious God(C)
    for an image of a bull, which eats grass.

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