Bible Verses

And the Lord said to Moses: “I see that these people are stiff-necked.

They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a molten calf; they have bowed down before it and sacrificed to it and said: ‘These are your gods, Israel, who brought you out of Egypt.’”

Then the Lord said to Moses: “Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.

So the next day, they rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. They then sat down to eat and drink and got up to make merry.

Now, when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before the molten calf and cried out: “Tomorrow will be a feast day for the Lord.”

 He took what they gave him and, with a graving tool, made the gold into a molten calf. They said: “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you out of Egypt.”

So everyone took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron.

And Aaron said to them: “Take the gold earrings from your wives, your sons, and daughters and bring them to me.”

The Golden Calf When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they assembled around Aaron and said to him: “Come, make us gods to walk ahead of us; as for this Moses who brought us out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.”