Mealler

So Moses returned to his people angry and disappointed. He said, "My people, did not your Lord promise you a good promise? Has the waiting been too long, or did you want that the wrath of your Lord to be upon you? Thus you broke the promise with me."

They said, "We did not break the promise by our own will, but we were loaded down with the jewelry of the people so we cast them down, and it was such that the Samarian suggested."

He then produced for them a statue of a calf that emitted a sound. So they said, "This is your god and the god of Moses, but he had forgotten!"

Did they not see that it did not respond to them? Nor did it possess for them any harm or benefit?

Aaron had told them before: "My people, you are being tested with it. Your Lord is the Gracious, so follow me and obey my command!"