^7 (A)Do not be idolaters ^(B)as some of them were; as it is written, ^(C)“The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.”

⁶ And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And ^(A)the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up ^(B)to play.

⁷ And the Lord said to Moses, ^(C)“Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have ^(D)corrupted themselves. ⁸ They have turned aside quickly out of the way that ^(E)I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’”

¹⁴ Therefore, my beloved, ^(A)flee from idolatry.

⁹ Or do you not know that the unrighteous^[a] will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: ^(A)neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,^[b]

¹² Then the Lord said to me, ^(A)‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have ^(B)turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them; they have made themselves a metal image.’

¹⁶ And ^(A)I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God. You had made yourselves a golden^[a] calf. ^(B)You had turned aside quickly from the way that the Lord had commanded you. ¹⁷ So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes. ¹⁸ Then I ^(C)lay prostrate before the Lord ^(D)as before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, ^(E)in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger. ¹⁹ For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure that the Lord bore against you, so that he was ready to destroy you. ^(F)But the Lord listened to me that time also. ²⁰ And the Lord was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him. And I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. ²¹ Then ^(G)I took the sinful thing, the calf that you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. And I threw the dust of it into the brook that ran down from the mountain.

¹¹ But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone ^(A)who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.

²¹ Little children, ^(A)keep yourselves from idols.