⁴ Then he took the gold from their ^[a]hands, and fashioned it with an engraving tool and made it into a ^(A)cast metal calf; and they said, “^[b]This is your god, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

Moses’ Plea

¹¹ Then ^(A)Moses pleaded with the Lord his God, and said, “Lord, why does Your anger burn against Your people whom You have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

^12 (A)Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, go down from here quickly, because your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have behaved corruptly. They have ^(B)quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them; they have made a cast metal image for themselves.’