Friendship Bouquet
Photo by Brigitte Tohm on Unsplash Moses was indignant about the behavior of the people in making the graven image just after their agreement not to do so. They had become impatient and fearful in his absence and felt the need of a god they could keep in check and control, one that would protect them, one made of gold. This is recorded in Exodus 32:21–34. When Moses does return, he asks the man he had put in charge to report. The answer he receives in unbecoming of a leader. Here is the dialogue: “And Aaron said, ‘Do not let the anger of my lord burn hot; you know the people, that they are bent on evil. They said to me, ‘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.’ So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, take it off’ so they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf!’” Moses may have overreacted, but he did act in accordance with the covenant with which the