Exodus 32:1–14

And when the people saw that Moses ^adelayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, ^bUp, make us gods, which shall ^cgo before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. ²And Aaron said unto them, Break off the ^dgolden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. ³And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. ^4eAnd he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a ^emolten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. ⁵And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made ^fproclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the Lord. ⁶And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the ^gpeople sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to ^hplay.

⁷And the Lord said unto Moses, ⁱGo, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, ^jhave corrupted themselves: ⁸They have turned aside quickly out of the way which ^kI commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, ^lThese be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. ⁹And the Lord said unto Moses, ^mI have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: ¹⁰Now therefore ⁿlet me alone, that ^omy wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and ^pI will make of thee a great nation. ^11qAnd Moses besought ^†the Lord his God, and said, Lord, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? ^12rWherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and ^srepent of this evil against thy people. ¹³Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou ^tswarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, ^uI will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever. ¹⁴And the Lord ^wrepented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.