Exodus 32:1

The Golden Calf

¹ Now when the people saw that Moses _a delayed coming down from the mountain, the people _b gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, _c "Come, make us ₁ gods that shall _d go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who _e brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him."

1. Cross References
   Exodus 24:18
   So Moses went into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
   Deuteronomy 9:9 - 12
   When I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.
   
2. Cross References
   Exodus 17:1 - 3
   Then all the congregation of the children of Israel set out on their journey from the Wilderness of Sin, according to the commandment of the LORD, and camped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.
   
3. Cross References
   Acts 7:40
   "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.'
   
4. Cross References
   Exodus 13:21
   And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night.
   
5. Cross References
   Exodus 32:8
   "They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, 'This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!'"