Saul answered, "My men took them from the Amalekites. They kept the best sheep and cattle to offer as a sacrifice to the LORD your God, and the rest we have destroyed completely."

The LORD God asked the woman, "Why did you do this?" She replied, "The snake tricked me into eating it."

Aaron answered, "Don't be angry with me; you know how determined these people are to do evil.

They said to me, 'We don't know what has happened to this man Moses, who brought us out of Egypt; so make us a god to lead us.'