Exodus 32:23-25

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²³ They said to me, ‘Make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’^{(A) 24} So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, take it off’; so they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf!”^(B)

²⁵ When Moses saw that the people were out of control (for Aaron had lost control of them, prompting derision among their enemies),