⁶ So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings.^(A) Afterward they sat down to eat and drink^(B) and got up to indulge in revelry.^(C)

²⁵ Moses saw that the people were running wild and that Aaron had let them get out of control and so become a laughingstock^(A) to their enemies.

²⁸ The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died.

³⁵ And the Lord struck the people with a plague because of what they did with the calf^(A) Aaron had made.