Exodus 32:22
And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: you knowest the people, that they on mischief.
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Context
20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt in the fire, and ground to powder, and strawed upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink .
21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto you, that you hast brought so great a sin upon them?
22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: you knowest the people, that they on mischief.
23 For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
24 And I said unto them, Whosoever has any gold, let them break off. So they gave me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.