The LORD spoke to Moses:“ Go quickly, descend, because your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly.They have quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them– they have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said,‘ These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt.’”Then the LORD said to Moses:“ I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are!So now, leave me alone so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.”
They made an image of a calf at Horeb, and worshiped a metal idol.They traded their majestic God for the image of an ox that eats grass.They rejected the God who delivered them, the one who performed great deeds in Egypt,amazing feats in the land of Ham, mighty acts by the Red Sea.
