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;

13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel [Jacob], your servants, to whom you swore by yourself, saying, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land of which I have spoken, I will give to your seed, and they will possess it forever.'

14 And the Lord took away the evil which he had said he would bring upon his people.

15 And Moses turned and came down from the mountain; In his hand were two tablets of revelation [of stone], on which was written on both sides: on both sides was written;

16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writings written on the tablets were the writings of God.