Adonai was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, so I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
Then Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you, to make you bring such a great sin upon them?”
So Adonai struck the people because of what they did with the calf that Aaron had made.
For I was afraid of the fierce wrath and fury which Adonai bore toward you—to destroy you. But Adonai listened to me that time also.
I took your sin—the calf you had made—and burned it in the fire. I crushed it, grinding it up so well that it was as fine as dust, and I threw its dust into the wadi flowing down from the mountain.