Exodus 32:21-24 ▼

21 And Moses says to Aaron, “What has this people done to you, that you have brought in a great sin on it?”

22 And Aaron says, “Do not let the anger of my lord burn; you have known the people, that it [is beset] with evil;

23 and they say to me, Make gods for us, who go before us, for this Moses—the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt—we have not known what has happened to him;

24 and I say to them, Whoever has gold, let them break [it] off, and they give [it] to me, and I cast it into the fire, and this calf comes out.”