38. “This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the Messenger who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received the living Words to give to us,
39. unto whom our fathers would not become obedient, but thrust away, and in their hearts they turned back to Mits-rayim,
40. saying to Aharon, ‘Make us mighty ones to go before us, for this Mosheh who led us out of the land of Mitsrayim, we do not know what has become of him.’
41. “And they made a calf in those days, and brought an offering to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their own hands.