AND when the people saw that Mosheh delayed to come down out of the Mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aharon, and said unto him, Up, make us elohiym, which shall go before us; for as for this Mosheh, the man that brought us up out of the land of Mitsrayim, we know not what is become of him.
And Aharon said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your women, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
And all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto El-Aharon.
And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be your elohiym, O Yashar'el, which brought you up out of the land of Mitsrayim.
And when Aharon saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aharon made proclamation, and said, Tomorrow is a feast to Yahuah.
And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered ascending smoke offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
And Yahuah said unto Mosheh, Go, get you down; for your people, which you brought out of the land of Mitsrayim, have corrupted themselves:
They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be your elohiym, O Yashar'el, which have brought you up out of the land of Mitsrayim.
And Yahuah said unto Mosheh, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of you a great nation.
And Mosheh besought Yahuah Elohayu, and said, Yahuah, why does your wrath wax hot against your people, which you have brought forth out of the land of Mitsrayim with great power, and with a mighty hand?
Wherefore should the Mitsriym speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.
Remember Avraham, Yitschaq, and Yashar'el, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.
And Yahuah repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
And Mosheh turned, and went down from the Mount, and the two caphires of the testimony were in his hand: the caphires were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
And the caphires were the work of Elohiym, and the writing was the writing of Elohiym, graven upon the caphires.
And when Yahusha heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Mosheh, There is a noise of war in the camp.
And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Mosheh’s anger waxed hot, and he cast the caphires out of his hands, and broke them beneath the Mount.
And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Yashar'el drink of it.
And Mosheh said unto El-Aharon, What did this people unto you, that you have brought so great a sin upon them?
And Aharon said, Let not the anger of my adoniy wax hot: you know the people, that they are set on mischief.
For they said unto me, Make us elohiym, which shall go before us: for as for this Mosheh, the man that brought us up out of the land of Mitsrayim, we know not what is become of him.
And I said unto them, Whosoever has any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.
And when Mosheh saw that the people were naked; (for Aharon had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)
Then Mosheh stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on Yahuah's side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Leviy gathered themselves together unto him.
And he said unto them, Thus says Yahuah Elohai of Yashar'el, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.
And the children of Leviy did according to the word of Mosheh: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
For Mosheh had said, Consecrate yourselves today to Yahuah, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Mosheh said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto El-Yahuah; perchance I shall make an atonement for your sin.
And Mosheh returned unto El-Yahuah, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them elohai of gold.
Yet now, if you will forgive their sin; and if not, blot me, I pray you, out of your cepher which you have written.
And Yahuah said unto Mosheh, Whosoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my cepher.
Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto you: behold, my Angel shall go before you: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.
And Yahuah plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aharon made.