God has made a covenant with the people of Israel in chapter 19 and in chapter 24. Despite their promises, the people get antsy while waiting for Moses, and ask Aaron to make a god. He gathers up the gold that had been plundered from the Egyptians, and creates a golden calf. God and Moses are talking, and when God observes what is happening, he threatens to wipe out these "stiffnecked people." God invites Moses to convince him not to destroy the people he has just led out of Egypt. Moses delivers a powerful and persuasive prayer (32:11-13), after which the Lord renounced the punishment he was going to bring on his people.
What golden calves do we have? Wealth, power, celebrities, the Redskins (some years), American exceptionalism?
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