1And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for 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. 2And Aaron said to them, Break off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me. 3And all the people broke off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. 4And he received it from their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf: and they said, These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt. 5And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yehovah. 6And they rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. 7And Yehovah spoke to Moses, Go down; for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: 8they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made for themselves a molten calf, and have bowed down to it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt. 9And Yehovah said to Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: 10now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may grow hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of you a great nation. 11And Moses implored Yehovah his God, and said, Yehovah, why does your wrath grow hot against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, For evil he brought them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people. 13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever. 14And Yehovah repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people. 15And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, with the two tables of the testimony in his hand; tables that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other they were written. 16And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables. 17And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp. 18And he said, It is not the voice of those who shout for mastery, nor is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing I hear. 19And it happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses’ anger grew hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mount. 20And he took the calf which they had made, and burned it with fire, and ground it to powder, and scattered it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it. 21And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people do to you, that you have brought a great sin upon them? 22And Aaron said, Do not let the anger of my lord grow hot: you know the people, that they are set on evil. 23For they said to me, Make us gods, which shall go before us; for 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. 24And I said to them, Whoever has any gold, let them break it off: so they gave it to me; and I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf. 25And when Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies,) 26then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Whoever is on Yehovah’s side, let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. 27And he said to them, Thus says Yehovah, the God of Israel, Put every man his sword upon his thigh, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor. 28And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. 29And Moses said, Consecrate yourselves today to Yehovah, indeed, every man against his son, and against his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day. 30And it happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people, You have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up to Yehovah; perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin. 31And Moses returned to Yehovah, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made for themselves gods of gold. 32Yet now, if you will forgive their sin—; and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written. 33And Yehovah said to Moses, Whoever has sinned against me, him I will blot out of my book. 34And now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you: behold, my angel shall go before you; nevertheless in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them. 35And Yehovah struck the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.