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Exodus 32:18-23 English Standard Version (ESV)

18. But he said, “It is not the sound of shouting for victory, or the sound of the cry of defeat, but the sound of singing that I hear.”

19. And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses’ anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.

20. He took the calf that they had made and burned it with fire and ground it to powder and scattered it on the water and made the people of Israel drink it.

21. And Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought such a great sin upon them?”

22. And Aaron said, “Let not the anger of my lord burn hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

23. For they said to me, ‘Make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’