So it was, as soon as he came near the camp, that he saw the calf [and] the dancing. So Moses' anger became hot, and he cast the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.

"saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods to go before us; [as for] this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'

"And they made a calf in those days, offered sacrifices to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.