Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him. You shall make an altar on which to offer incense; You shall make it of acacia wood.  It shall be one cubit long, and one cubit wide; it shall be square.

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Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us Tomorrow shall be a festival to the LORD You shall make an altar on which to offer incense; You shall make it of acacia wood.  These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt

Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have acted perversely;  They have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them; They have cast for themselves an image of a calf, and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’”  I have seen this people, how stiff-necked they are.  Now let me alone, so that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; and of you I will make a great nation.

O LORD, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?  Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce wrath; change your mind and do not bring disaster on your people.  Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, how you swore to them by your own self, saying to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.

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As soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses’ anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets from his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.  He took the calf that they had made, burned it with fire, ground it to powder, scattered it on the water, and made the Israelites drink it. Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought so great a sin upon them?” There is a noise of war in the camp

There is a noise of war in the camp Do not let the anger of my lord burn hot; You know the people, that they are bent on evil.  They said to me, ‘Make us gods, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’  So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, take it off’; so they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf!”

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But now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you; see, my angel shall go in front of you. Nevertheless, when the day comes for punishment, I will punish them for their sin. Alas, this people has sinned a great sin; They have made for themselves gods of gold.  But now, if you will only forgive their sin—but if not, blot me out of the book that you have written.

The Lord Moses Aaron Joshua Isaac