18 And when [God] had ceased to speak to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him two tablets of revelation, tables of stone, on which was written with the finger of God.

Chapter 32

1 And when the people saw that Moses had not come down from the mountain for a long time, they gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said unto him, Arise, and make us a god to go before us: for with this man, Moses, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened.

2 And Aaron said to them, 'Take out the gold earrings that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.'

3 And all the people took the gold earrings out of their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

4 And he took them out of their hands, and made of them a cast calf, and made it with a chisel. And they said, Behold thy god, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

5 And when Aaron saw this, he set an altar before him, and cried out to Aaron, saying, "Tomorrow is the feast of the Lord."

6 And on the morrow they arose early, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace-offerings: and the people sat down to eat and drink, and afterwards arose to play.

7 And the Lord said to Moses, 'Hasten to come down [from here], for your people are corrupted, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt;

8 And they soon turned away from the way which I had commanded them, and made themselves a cast calf, and worshipped it, and offered sacrifices to it, and said, Behold thy god, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

9 And the Lord said to Moses, 'I see this people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people;

10 Therefore leave me, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and I will destroy them, and I will make a great nation out of you.

11 And Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, O Lord, let not thy wrath be kindled against thy people, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand,

12 lest the Egyptians should say, 'He brought them out to destruction, to kill them in the mountains, and to destroy them from off the face of the earth.' turn away Thy fiery wrath, and undo the destruction of Thy people;