3. So all the people took the gold rings from their ears and brought them to Aaron.
4. And he received the gold at their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made it a molten calf; and they said, These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!
5. And when Aaron saw the molten calf, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, Tomorrow shall be a feast to the Lord.
6. And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.
7. The Lord said to Moses, Go down, for your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves;
8. They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, These are your gods, O Israel, that brought you up out of the land of Egypt!
9. And the Lord said to Moses, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people;