Exodus 32:23-25

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²³ They said to me, “Make us gods, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” ²⁴ So I said to them, “Whoever has gold, take it off”; so they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf!’

²⁵ When Moses saw that the people were running wild (for Aaron had let them run wild, to the derision of their enemies),