Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.

My name is Keith Simon and right now we're going through the book of Exodus.

Hey today we get to look at a classic story of the Old Testament.

If there were a Bible's greatest hits, this story would for sure be part of it.

It's the story of the golden calf, and it's found in Exodus Chapter 32.

Let me read the opening verses of the chapter,

and then we're going to dive in, unpack it, and see what it says to us.

So let's just start in verse one.

When the people saw that Moses was so long and coming down from the mountain, and they gathered

around Aaron and said, Come, make us gods who will go before us.

As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt,

we don't know what's happened to him.

Aaron answered them, take off your gold earrings that your wives,

your sons, your daughters are wearing and bring them to me.

So all the people took off their earrings and brought them down to Aaron.

He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool.

Then they said, these are your gods Israel who brought you up out of Egypt.

So Moses had been on the mountain for a while, at least a month, and while he was gone, the Israelites started getting restless. What was he doing up there?

When was he going to come back and lead them out of the wilderness? In their

restlessness they turned to Aaron and asked him to make a golden calf and then they start

worshipping it like it's their God. So you're wondering why in the world would

you make a God out of a golden cow? And it's a pretty simple answer. You see the Egyptians worshipped a lot of different cow deities.

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