Exodus 32:1–4 TLB
When Moses didn’t come back down the mountain right away, the people went to Aaron. “Look,” they said, “make us a god to lead us, for this fellow Moses who brought us here from Egypt has disappeared; something must have happened to him.” “Give me your gold earrings,” Aaron replied. So they all did—men and women, boys and girls. Aaron melted the gold, then molded and tooled it into the form of a calf [bull]. The people exclaimed, “O Israel, this is the god that brought you out of Egypt!”