The Golden Calf

32 When the people saw that Moses ^(A)delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, ^(B)“Up, make us gods who shall ^(C)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.”

²³ But this command I gave them: ^(A)‘Obey my voice, and ^(B)I will be your God, and you shall be my people. ^(C)And walk in all the way that I command you, ^(D)that it may be well with you.’ ^24 (E)But they did not obey or incline their ear, ^(F)but walked in their own counsels and ^(G)the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and ^(H)went backward and not forward.

²⁹ How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one ^(A)who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned ^(B)the blood of the covenant ^(C)by which he was sanctified, and has ^(D)outraged the Spirit of grace?

¹¹ But ^(A)they refused to pay attention ^(B)and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.^[a]