Exodus 32:18-20

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¹⁸ Moses answered:

¹⁹ When Moses came close to the camp, he saw the gold calf and the dancing, and he became very angry. He threw down the stone tablets that he was carrying and broke them at the bottom of the mountain [^Csignifying the broken covenant]. ²⁰ Then he took the calf that they had made and melted it in the fire. He ground it into powder. Then he ·threw [scattered] the powder into the water and forced the Israelites to drink it [^Cparalleling an ancient Near Eastern ritual for destroying a statue of a god].