that one, I don't get. Reference?
Here is the U.S. conference of Catholic bishops interpretation..
http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/exodus/exodus32.htm
Then take a read through this as well, i've highlighted some points to help out...
32:1 1 When the people saw that Moses delayed
2 in coming down
3 from the mountain, they
4 gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Get up,
5 make us gods
6 that will go before us.
As for this fellow Moses, 7 the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what
8 has become of him!”
32:2 So Aaron said to them, “Break off the gold earrings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”
9 32:3 So all
10 the people broke off the gold earrings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.
32:4 He accepted the gold
11 from them,
12 fashioned
13 it with an engraving tool, and made a molten calf.
14 Then they said,
“These are your gods, 15 O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”
32:5 When
16 Aaron saw this,
17 he built an altar before it,
18 and Aaron made a proclamation
19 and said,
“Tomorrow will be a feast 20 to the Lord.” 32:6 So they got up early on the next day and offered up burnt offerings and brought peace offerings, and the people sat down to eat and drink,
21 and they rose up to play.
22
32:7 The Lord spoke to Moses: “Go quickly, descend,
23 because your
24 people,
whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly.
32:8 They have quickly turned aside
25 from the way that I commanded them –
they have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said,
‘These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt.’”
32:9 Then the Lord said to Moses: “I have seen this people.
26 Look
27 what a stiff-necked people they are!
28 32:10 So now, leave me alone
29 so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.”
32:11 But Moses sought the favor
30 of the Lord his God and said, “O Lord, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
32:12 Why
31 should the Egyptians say,
32 ‘For evil
33 he led them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy
34 them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger, and relent
35 of this evil against your people.
32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them, ‘I will multiply your descendants
36 like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about
37 I will give to your descendants,
38 and they will inherit it forever.’”
32:14 Then the Lord relented over the evil that he had said he would do to his people.
32:15 Moses turned and went down from the mountain with
39 the two tablets of the testimony in his hands. The tablets were written on both sides – they were written on the front and on the back.
32:16 Now the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
32:17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted,
40 he said to Moses, “It is the sound of war in the camp!”
32:18 Moses
41 said, “It is not the sound of those who shout for victory,
42 nor is it the sound of those who cry because they are overcome,
43 but the sound of singing
44 I hear.”
45
32:19 When he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became extremely angry.
46 He threw the tablets from his hands and broke them to pieces at the bottom of the mountain.
47 32:20 He took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire, ground it
48 to powder, poured it out on the water, and made the Israelites drink it.
49
32:21 Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you, that you have brought on them so great a sin?”
32:22 Aaron said, “Do not let your anger burn hot, my lord;
50 you know these people, that they tend to evil.
51 32:23 They said to me, ‘Make us gods
that will go before us, for as for this fellow Moses, the
man who
brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’
32:24 So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, break it off.’ So they gave it
52 to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.”
53
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