Yahweh’s wondrous deliverance. And they did so with singing and dancing. In our present passage, they celebrate the same way—but they honour a calf as god! 32:20. And he took the calf which they had made, and he burned it in the fire, and he ground it into fine dust. And he scattered it on the surface of the water, and he caused the children of Israel to drink it. Some interpreters question how a metal calf could be burned and then ground to dust.19 A Canaanite text from Ugarit helps us to interpret