“They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.”
Acts 7:41 (WEB)
Context Reading
39to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him and turned back in their hearts to Egypt, 40saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’ 41They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands. 42But God turned away and gave them up to serve the army of the sky,as it is written in the book of the prophets,‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrificesforty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? 43You took up the tabernacle of Moloch,the star of your god Rephan,the figures which you made to worship,so I will carry you away beyond Babylon.’