Hello and welcome to Bible stories. I am your host, Matt. Todd is out today because his children,

the twins, it's their birthday. So happy birthday, Heyman's twins. We hope you have a great one. They're very

first. So mom, mom's friends, it's just you and me. You are stuck with your moonface chair boy matt but i couldn't skip

this one because mom mom's friends today we're going to be talking about the golden calf that's right

we're picking up with our third episode on mount sinai so you'll remember moses has been having this insanely amazing experience on top of the

mountain of God.

This guy has literally been meeting with God.

Can you imagine that?

But while Moses is having his mountaintop experience, the people of Israel are having a very

different time.

They weren't permitted to touch the mountain. They were encamped down at the base, and ascending the mountain was

punishable by death. And well, Moses has been up there for a while. He's been receiving the law.

He's received the Ten Commandments, and it's been in total 40 days.

The folks haven't seen Moses, and they're fearful. So they go to Moses' brother, his name is Aaron.

He's their temporary leader while Moses is on top of Mount Sinai, and they say,

up, make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up

out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him. Mom, seeing is believing

to this group of people who are at the bottom of the mountain. And so they're asking for a visible

object to follow because they've been

removed from Moses for so long. Now, I've had head colds that have lasted longer than 40 days,

but maybe some kind of group think is kind of settled in and they've decided, give us this object,

give us an idol. And at this point in the story, I would love to tell you that Aaron

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