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Summary
Exodus 32:1 - 32:2 - 32:3 - 32:4

32:1. The people seeing that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, gathering together against Aaron, said: Arise, make us gods, that may go before us: For as to this Moses, the man that brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has befallen him.

32:2. Aaron said to them: Take the golden earrings from the ears of your wives, and your sons and daughters, and bring them to me.

32:3. The people did what he had commanded, bringing the earrings to Aaron.

'''32:4. When he had received them, he fashioned them by founders' work, and made of them a molten calf. And they said: These are your gods, O Israel, that have brought you out of the land of Egypt.'''

The Golden Calf, Exodus 32:1-8, 32:30-35, illustration from a Bible card published 1907 by the Providence Lithograph Company Date: 1907