I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them break it off.’ So they gave it to me, and then I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.”
He received them from their hand, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it into a molded calf. Then they said, “This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”
As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one;
But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
And the Lord plagued the people because they had made the calf, the one that Aaron made.