They believed that G-d stayed away because of the sin of the Golden Calf. The Jews had not been forgiven. Moses knew otherwise. He was not meant to continue his position. He had forfeited this and ...

“They are literally worshipping a golden calf,” one Bluesky commenter ... the Israelites had done and vowed to destroy them and start a new people. Moses successfully pleaded with God to ...

the golden calf was created by followers of Moses after he left to retrieve the Ten Commandments from God on the mountain. As the story goes, Moses destroyed the calf after returning, frustrated ...

“Come, make us a god who will go before us,” they said to Moses’ brother, Aaron (Ex. 32:1, NASB). With his help, they fashioned a golden calf and begin to worship it, choosing a shiny ...

Moses is apparently a bit delayed in returning. Impatient, his slavish and fractious people demand that Aaron make them a ...

It is impossible to imagine a contrast greater than that found between the elements of worship among the Egyptians and such as were introduced among the Hebrews by Moses. The great difference in the ...