1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Exodus 32:2

And Aaron said to them: Take the golden ear-rings from the ears of your wives, and your sons and daughters, and bring them to me.

And your sons. The Septuagint omit this. But in the East, it was fashionable for men also to wear ear-rings. (Pliny, [Natural History?] 11:37; Judges 8:24; Ezechiel 7:20.) Aaron hoped the people would relent at this proposal. (St. Augustine, q. 141.)