Exodus 32:21-24 ▼

21 Then Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you, that you have brought such great sin upon them?”

22 And Aaron said, “Do not let the anger of my lord burn; you know the people yourself, that they are prone to evil.

23 Indeed they said to me, ‘Make gods for us who will go before us; for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’

24 And I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them tear it off.’ So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”