22. Aaron said, "Do not let the anger of my lord burn; you know the people yourself, that they are prone to evil.
23. For they said to me, 'Make a god for us who will go before us; for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'
24. I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let them tear it off.' So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf."
25. Now when Moses saw that the people were out of control-for Aaron had let them get out of control to be a derision among their enemies-