And all the people
plucked off the golden earings that were in their ears, and
brought them unto Aaron. And he received them of their hands and
fashioned it with a graver and made it a calf of molten metal. And
they said: This is thy God, O Israel, which brought thee out of
the land of Egypt. And when Aaron saw that, he made an altar
before it, and made a proclamation saying tomorrow shall be holy
day unto the LORD. And they rose up in the morning and offered
burnt offerings, and brought offerings of atonement also. And then
they sat them down to eat and drink, and rose up again to play.
Then the LORD said unto Moses: go get thee down, for thy people
which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have marred all
they are turned at once out of the way which I commanded them, and
have made them a calf of molten metal, and have worshipped it and
have offered thereto and have said: This is thy God thou Israel,
which hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt. And the LORD
said unto Moses: behold, I see this people, that it is a
stiffnecked people, and now therefore suffer me that my wrath may
wax hot upon them, and that I may consume them: and then will I
make of thee a mighty people. Then Moses besought the LORD his God
and said: O LORD, why should thy wrath wax hot upon thy people
which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt with great power
and with a mighty hand? wherefore should the Egyptians speak and
say: For a mischief did he bring them out: even for to slay them
in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth.
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