Exodus 32:4-19

4And he took [them] out of their hand, and fashioned it with a chisel and made of it a molten calf: and they said, This is thy 1god, Israel, who has brought thee up out of the land of Egypt!

5And Aaron saw [it], and built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, To-morrow is a feast to Jehovah!

6And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered up burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to sport.

7Then Jehovah said to Moses, Away, go down! for thy people, which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, is acting corruptly.

8They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them: they have made themselves a molten calf, and have bowed down to it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, This is thy 2god, Israel, who has brought thee up out of the land of Egypt!

9And Jehovah said to Moses, I see this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.

10And now let me alone, that my anger may burn against them, and I may consume them; and I will make of thee a great nation.

11And Moses besought Jehovah his 3God, and said, Why, Jehovah, doth thy wrath burn against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand?

12Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, For misfortune he has brought them out, to slay them on the mountains, and to annihilate them from the face of the earth? Turn from the heat of thine anger, and repent of this evil against thy people!

13Remember Abraham, Isaac and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thyself, and saidst to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your seed, and they shall possess [it] for ever!

14And Jehovah repented of the evil that he had said he would do to his people.

15And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, [with] the two tables of the testimony in his hand — tables written on both their sides: on this side and on that were they written.

16And the tables [were] 4God's work, and the writing was 5God's writing, engraven on the tables.

17And Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, and said to Moses, There is a shout of war in the camp.

18And he said, It is not the sound of a shout of victory, neither is it the sound of a shout of defeat: it is the noise of alternate singing I hear.

19And it came to pass, when he came near the camp, and saw the calf and the dancing, that Moses' anger burned, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and shattered them beneath the mountain.