Exodus 32:21-24
Read Exodus 32 in full →21Then Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you, that you have brought such great sin upon them?” 22And Aaron said, “Do not let the anger of my lord burn; you know the people yourself, athat they are 1prone to evil. 23“Indeed athey said to me, ‘Make 1gods 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 aI threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”