⁴ He took this from their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool and made it into a ^(A)molten calf; and they said, “^[a]This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

Moses’ Entreaty

¹¹ Then ^(A)Moses entreated the Lord his God, and said, “O Lord, why does Your anger burn against Your people whom You have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

^12 (A)Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They have ^(B)quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made a molten image for themselves.’