“They made a calf in Horeb.
They worshiped a cast image.
They exchanged the glory of God
For the image of an ox that eats grass.
They forgot God!
Their Savior!
He had done great things in Egypt.
He had done wondrous works in the land of Ham.
He had done awesome things by the Red Sea.
Therefore he said
That he would destroy them.
But Moses,
His chosen one,
Stood in the breach before him.
He wanted God
To turn away his wrath
From destroying them.”
This is a sanitized version of the story in Exodus, chapter 32. While Moses was at the top of the Sinai Mountain with Yahweh, Aaron and the Israelites built a golden calf at Horeb or Sinai as it is called. They then worshipped this golden ox as they turned away from Yahweh. They forgot how he had saved them in Egypt and the all the deeds that he done for them in the land of Ham, Egypt, and the Red Sea. Yahweh wanted to destroy them all. However, Moses interceded with God to turn his anger away so that he did not destroy them.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 