Exodus 32:23-25

Lexham English Bible

²³ And they said to me, ‘Make for us gods who will go before us, because 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 gold, take it off.’ And they gave it to me, and I threw it in the fire, and out came this bull calf.”

²⁵ And Moses saw the people, that they were running wild^[a] because Aaron had allowed them to run wild,^[b] for a laughingstock among their enemies.^[c]