. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . 15. Bezaleel, the grandson of Hur (; Ex. xxxv. 30, &c), was contemporary with thespies, who thus seem to have been a generation laterthan Caleb the son of Hur (so Dr. P. Holmes, inKitto).—4. Caleb-Ephra-tah, according to the pres-ent text of 1 Chr. ii. 24, the name of a place whereHezron died. But Lord A. C. Hervey regards thepresent text as corrupt, and the reading whichJeromes Hebrew Bible had, and which is preservedin the LXX., as probably the true one, Caleb camein unto Ephratah. Calfi In Ex. xxxii. 4, we are told that Aaron, CAL CAM 137 con
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . 15. Bezaleel, the grandson of Hur (; Ex. xxxv. 30, &c), was contemporary with thespies, who thus seem to have been a generation laterthan Caleb the son of Hur (so Dr. P. Holmes, inKitto).—4. Caleb-Ephra-tah, according to the pres-ent text of 1 Chr. ii. 24, the name of a place whereHezron died. But Lord A. C. Hervey regards thepresent text as corrupt, and the reading whichJeromes Hebrew Bible had, and which is preservedin the LXX., as probably the true one, Caleb camein unto Ephratah. Calfi In Ex. xxxii. 4, we are told that Aaron, CAL CAM 137 constrained by the people in the absence of Moses,made a molten calf (Heb. egel; see Bull) of thegolden ear-rings of the people, to represent the Elo-him (A. V. gods ) which brought Israel out ofEgypt. It does not seem likely that the ear-ringswould have provided the enormous quantity of goldrequired for a solid figure. More probably it was awooden figure laminated with gold, a process knownto have existed in Egypt. A gilded ox covered. Bronze figure of Apis.—(WilkinBon.) with a pall was an emblem of Osiris (Wilkinson,iv. 335). To punish the apostasy Moses burnt thecalf, and then grinding it to powder scattered it overthe water, where, according to some, it produced inthe drinkers effects similar to the water of jealousy(Num. v.). He probably adopted this course as thedeadliest and most irreparable blow to their super-stition, or as an allegorical act (Job xv. 16), or withreference to an Egyptian custom in honor of Apis(Hdt. ii. 41; Pooles Synopsis on Ex. xxxii. 20).The process which he used is difficult of and Rosenmiiller think that he merely cut,ground, and filed the gold to powder (Mines). Ithas always been a great dispute respecting this calfand those of Jeroboam, whether, I. the Jews in-tended them for some Egyptian god, or II. for amere cherubic symbol of Jehovah. Of the varioussacred cows of Egypt, those of Isis, of Athor, andof the three kinds of s
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