On the next day Moses said to the people, «You have committed a grave sin. They gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out».
So I told them, ‘Let anyone who has gold jewelry take it off’. They said to me, ‘Make us a god to be our leader as for the man Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him’. You know well enough how prone the people are to evil. Aaron replied, «Let not my lord be angry. Moses asked Aaron, «What did this people ever do to you that you should lead them into so grave a sin?». Taking the calf they had made, he fused it in the fire and then ground it down to powder, which he scattered on the water and made the children of Israel drink. With that, Moses' wrath flared up, so that he threw the tablets down and broke them on the base of the mountain. As he drew near the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing.
But Moses answered, «It does not sound like cries of victory, nor does it sound like cries of defeat the sounds that I hear are cries of revelry». Now, when Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting, he said to Moses, «That sounds like a battle in the camp». 1 st Reading ( Exod 32:15-24.30-34): Moses turned and came down the mountain with the two tablets of the commandments in his hands, tablets that were written on both sides, front and back tablets that were made by God, having inscriptions on them that were engraved by God himself.
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