Moses interceded for Aaron. The instigators of the rebellion were punished since they had asked for the calf.
Aaron got the gold from the people. He told them to take off the rings of gold which are in the ears of your qives, your sons, and your daughters.
The moon god, sometimes called Sin, was usually represented by a golden calf with crescent horns. That the golden calf was widely worshipped among the ancient Israelites is demonstrated by Exodus chapter 32, which depicts the Israelites making and worshipping a golden calf, 1 Kings chapter 12, which depicts King Jeroboam making two golden calves and placing one for worship in Bethel and one in Dan, with a further reference in 2 Kings 17. In Exodus 17:1, the Israelites left the wilderness of Sin (night time) before they fought the mythical Amelek in the morning.
The Israelites made a golden calf as an idol while waiting for Moses to come down from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments. This act of idolatry led to significant consequences for the Israelites.
A Biblical passage (or, paragraph) in which the Ten Commandments are broken is found in the Old Testament book of Exodus, Chapter 32. Here, the Israelites build and then worship a 'Golden Calf,' which is an explicit violation of the First Commandment: 'Thou shalt have no other gods before me.'
AnswerThe Bible has several references to the Israelites worshipping the golden calf, which we now know represented the moon god. During the third dynasty of Ur (c 2060 - 1950), the moon god, Sin, was represented in the the form of a golden calf with crescent-shaped horns and a long flowing beard of lapis lazuli. C L Woolley (Ur Excavations: The Royal Cemetery) shows several images found in his excavations of the royal graves at Ur. That these images are of the god Sin can be seen by the following description found in a Sumero-Akkadian hymn to that god: "Ferocious bull, whose horn is thick, whose legs are perfected, who is bearded in lapsis, and filled with luxury and abundance." The moon god went under different names at different times and in different regions. That the Hebrew people knew him by the name 'Sin' is attested in Exodus 17:1, "And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin ..." Theologians have long sought to identify the exact location of this wilderness, because they took a narrow and literalist view. The wilderness of Sin (ie the moon) is simply night time, and after several verses inserted late into the passage, the reason is clear. After leaving the widerness of Sin, Moses and Joshua fight the Amalek until going down of the sun.However, there is no certainty that the Israelites only used the name Sin for the moon god. Some scholars believe that the stories of the Hebrew patriarchs originally developed out of a story of the moon god. On this view, 'Jacob' may have been a commonly used name for the moon god, represented by the golden calf.
Aaron, the brother of Moses, made the golden calf.
Aaron made the golden calf.
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Aaron built it, using the golden things that the Israelites had. He melted them down and made the calf.
Moses was on Mt. Sinai getting the Ten Commandments from God, when the Golden Calf was made at the base of the mountain by the recently freed people who got scared when they were left alone. It was Aaron, his brother the High Priest, that confessed to making the calf, and he said he did it because the people forced him to make it.
Aaron got the gold from the people. He told them to take off the rings of gold which are in the ears of your qives, your sons, and your daughters.
He built a golden calf for the Israelites that escaped from Egypt
The events of the Golden Calf transpired:http://judaism.answers.com/kosher/the-complaints-in-the-wilderness-and-the-golden-calf
No Moses was on the mountain alone , as Aaron was with the Isrealites when they built the ill famous golden calf.
The name of the man was Aaron.
In the ancient Near East, the moon god was frequently represented by a bull with crescent horns or by a golden calf. So, the calf was used to worship the moon god.