So I told them, ‘Anyone who has any gold jewelry, take it off.’ They gave me the gold. I threw it into the fire. And out came this calf!”
The Lord struck the people with a plague. That’s because of what they did with the calf Aaron had made.
He took what they gave him and made it into a metal statue of a god. It looked like a calf. Aaron shaped it with a tool. Then the people said, “Israel, here is your god who brought you up out of Egypt.”
But the man wanted to make himself look good. So he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
It is written, “No one is right with God, no one at all.