Moses
When Moses went up onto Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments, he left the Israelites for forty days and forty nights ( 40 is the number of testing)The Israelites were afraid that he would not return and asked Aaron to make for them an image of the God of Israel .However, Aaron refused to build a representation of the God of Israel. The Israelites had complained enough to overwhelm Aaron (Exodus 32:2) And Aaron said unto them �Break off the ring of gold which in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daugthers, and bring them�. He melted them and made a statue of a young bull, made of gold( also called a calf). Aaron also built an altar before the calf and declared "Israel, ...
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Lord relented. And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he told Moses. Moses went down from the mountain, but upon seeing the calf, he too became angry. He threw down the tablets upon which God's law had been written, breaking them. Moses burnt the golden calf in a fire, ground it to powder, scattered it on water, and forced the Israelites to drink it. Aaron admitted collecting the gold, and throwing it into the fire along with cutting wood, and said it came out as a calf. Moses then called everyone who was willing to follow the Torah to himself. Most of Israel came to Moses, including every member of the tribe of Levi. Moses sent the Levites to slay a large number of people (3000) who had rejected Moses' call. A plague struck the Israelites. Nevertheless, the Lord stated that he would one day visit the Israelites' sin upon them.
As Moses had broken the tablets, the Lord instructed him to return to Mount Sinai and receive a ...
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