Exodus 32:1-8 ▼

1 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, |Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.|

2 Aaron said to them, |Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me.|

3 All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

4 He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, |These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.|

5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, |Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD.|

6 They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

7 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, |Go down at once, for your people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves.

8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'|