Exodus 32:21-24

New American Standard Bible

²¹ Then Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you, that you have brought such a great sin upon them?” ²² And Aaron said, “Do not let the anger of my lord burn; you know the people yourself, ^(A)that they are ^[a]prone to evil. ²³ For ^(B)they said to me, ‘Make ^[b]a god for us who will go before us; for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt—we do not know what happened to him.’ ²⁴ So I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them tear it off.’ Then they gave it to me, and ^(C)I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”