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1 And when the peo­ple saw that Moses de­layed to come down out of the mount, the peo­ple gath­ered them­selves to­geth­er unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go 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. 2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the gold­en ear­rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daugh­ters, and bring them unto me. 3 And all the peo­ple brake off the gold­en ear­rings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. 4 And he re­ceived them at their hand, and fash­ioned it with a grav­ing tool, af­ter he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Is­rael, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an al­tar be­fore it; and Aaron made procla­ma­tion, and said, To mor­row is a feast to the LORD. 6 And they rose up ear­ly on the mor­row, and of­fered burnt of­fer­ings, and brought peace of­fer­ings; and the peo­ple sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. 7 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy peo­ple, which thou brought­est out of the land of Egypt, have cor­rupt­ed themselves: 8 They have turned aside quick­ly out of the way which I com­mand­ed them: they have made them a molten calf, and have wor­shipped it, and have sac­ri­ficed there­un­to, and said, These be thy gods, O Is­rael, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 9 And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this peo­ple, and, be­hold, it is a stiff­necked peo­ple: 10 Now there­fore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may con­sume them: and I will make of thee a great na­tion. 11 And 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? 12 Where­fore 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 re­pent of this evil against thy peo­ple. 13 Re­mem­ber Abra­ham, Isaac, and Is­rael, thy ser­vants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I 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. 14 And the LORD re­pent­ed of the evil which he thought to do unto his peo­ple. 15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two ta­bles of the tes­ti­mo­ny were in his hand: the ta­bles were writ­ten on both their sides; on the one side and on the oth­er were they writ­ten. 16 And the ta­bles were the work of God, and the writ­ing was the writ­ing of God, graven upon the ta­bles. 17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the peo­ple as they shout­ed, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp. 18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mas­tery, nei­ther is it the voice of them that cry for be­ing over­come: but the noise of them that sing do I hear. 19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the danc­ing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the ta­bles out of his hands, and brake them be­neath the mount. 20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to pow­der, and strawed it upon the wa­ter, and made the chil­dren of Is­rael drink of it. 21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this peo­ple unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them? 22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou know­est the peo­ple, that they are set on mis­chief. 23 For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go 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. 24 And I said unto them, Whoso­ev­er hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf. 25 And when Moses saw that the peo­ple were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their en­e­mies:) 26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gath­ered them­selves to­geth­er unto him. 27 And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Is­rael, Put ev­ery man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate through­out the camp, and slay ev­ery man his broth­er, and ev­ery man his com­pan­ion, and ev­ery man his neigh­bour. 28 And the chil­dren of Levi did ac­cord­ing to the word of Moses: and there fell of the peo­ple that day about three thou­sand men. 29 For Moses had said, Con­se­crate your­selves to day to the LORD, even ev­ery man upon his son, and upon his broth­er; that he may be­stow upon you a bless­ing this day. 30 And it came to pass on the mor­row, that Moses said unto the peo­ple, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; per­ad­ven­ture I shall make an atone­ment for your sin. 31 And Moses re­turned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this peo­ple have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. 32 Yet now, if thou wilt for­give their sin­; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast writ­ten. 33 And the LORD said unto Moses, Whoso­ev­er hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. 34 There­fore now go, lead the peo­ple unto the place of which I have spo­ken unto thee: be­hold, mine An­gel shall go be­fore thee: nev­er­the­less in the day when I vis­it I will vis­it their sin upon them. 35 And the LORD plagued the peo­ple, be­cause they made the calf, which Aaron made.