Exodus 32:1-2

Contemporary English Version

The People Make an Idol To Worship

(Deuteronomy 9.6-29)

32 ^(A) After the people saw that Moses had been on the mountain for a long time, they went to Aaron and said, “Make us an image of a god who will lead and protect us. Moses brought us out of Egypt, but nobody knows what has happened to him.”

² Aaron told them, “Bring me the gold earrings that your wives and sons and daughters are wearing.”