Exodus 32:22-24

New International Reader's Version

²² “Please don’t be angry,” Aaron answered. “You know how these people like to do what is evil. ²³ They said to me, ‘Make us a god that will lead us. This fellow Moses brought us up out of Egypt. But we don’t know what has happened to him.’ ²⁴ So I told them, ‘Anyone who has any gold jewelry, take it off.’ They gave me the gold. I threw it into the fire. And out came this calf!”