18. But Moses said, It is not the sound of shouting for victory, neither is it the sound of the cry of the defeated, but the sound of singing that I hear.
19. And as soon as he came near to the camp he saw the calf and the dancing. And Moses' anger blazed hot and he cast the tables out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.
20. And he took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder and scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it.
21. And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people do to you, that you have brought so great a sin upon them?
22. And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord blaze hot; you know the people, that they are set on evil.