Jon Collins
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Yeah, from engraved or molten, I guess molten.
Yeah, where does that word come from, graven?
It's from, I'm sure, a Latin root for grave.
It's got to mean shaped in some way.
And I just think of molten lava.
The only time I use the word molten is talking about molten lava.
I don't even use that word very often.
So in the story of the golden calf, the first idol in Israel's history.
Molten, because Aaron takes gold rings.
We're told that he fashions them with a graving tool and makes it into a molten calf.
So at some point he melted it down.
We're not told when they did that.
We're just told what he does with the material after he's poured it into a mold and it begins to shape up.