“And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the Lord had commanded you.”
When I looked, I saw that you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded — the visual evidence confirms the LORD's word: the golden calf stands as material proof of apostasy. The calf-idol represents the substitution of visible, tangible divinity for the invisible LORD.
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