1. After the people saw that Moses had been on the mountain for a long time, they went to Aaron and said, “Make us an image of a god who will lead and protect us. Moses brought us out of Egypt, but nobody knows what has happened to him.”
2. Aaron told them, “Bring me the gold earrings that your wives and sons and daughters are wearing.”
3. Everybody took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron,
15-16. Moses went back down the mountain with the two flat stones on which God had written all his laws with his own hand, and he had used both sides of the stones.