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18 Moses replied,

“It’s not the sound of winners shouting.
    It’s not the sound of losers crying.
        It’s the sound of a wild celebration[a] that I hear.”

19 When he came near the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. In a burst of anger Moses threw down the tablets and smashed them at the foot of the mountain. 20 Then he took the calf they had made, burned it, ground it into powder, scattered it on the water, and made the Israelites drink it.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 32:18 Hebrew meaning of “wild celebration” uncertain.

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