^7 (A)And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, ^(B)“The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”

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

⁷ And the Lord said to Moses, ^(B)“Go, get down! For your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt ^(C)have corrupted themselves. ⁸ They have turned aside quickly out of the way which ^(D)I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ^(E)‘This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!’ ”

Flee from Idolatry

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

⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. ^(A)Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor ^[a]homosexuals, nor ^[b]sodomites,

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

¹⁶ And ^(A)I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God—had made for yourselves a molded calf! You had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you. ¹⁷ Then I took the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and ^(B)broke them before your eyes. ¹⁸ And I ^(C)fell^[a] down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. ^19 (D)For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the Lord was angry with you, to destroy you. ^(E)But the Lord listened to me at that time also. ²⁰ And the Lord was very angry with Aaron and would have destroyed him; so I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. ²¹ Then I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it and ground it very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I ^(F)threw its dust into the brook that descended from the mountain.

¹¹ But now I have written to you not to keep company ^(A)with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—^(B)not even to eat with such a person.

²¹ Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.