Then all the people plucked from [a]themselves the golden earrings, which were in their ears, and they brought them unto Aaron.

(A)Who received them at their hands, and fashioned it with the graving tool, and made of it a [b]molten calf: then they said, (B)These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

When Aaron saw that, he made an Altar before it: and Aaron proclaimed, saying, Tomorrow shall be the holy day of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 32:3 Such is the rage of idolaters, that they spare no cost to satisfy their wicked desires.
  2. Exodus 32:4 They smelled of their leaven of Egypt, where they saw calves, oxen and serpents worshipped.

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