Exodus 32:2-4

The Golden Calf

²Aaron said to them, “Tear off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” ³So all the people tore off the gold rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. ⁴Then he took the gold from their hands, and fashioned it with an engraving tool and made it into a cast metal calf; and they said, “This is your god, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”