So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, take it off!’; so they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf!”
Then the Lord sent a plague on the people, because they made the calf—the one that Aaron made.
He took the gold from them, formed it in a mold, and cast an image of a calf; and they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
as it is written: “There is no one who is righteous, not even one;