Exodus 32:22-24 ▼

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.”