go tofore us, we know not what is befallen to Moses.  Then Aaron said:  Take the gold that hangeth in the ears of your wives and your children, and bring it to me.  The people did as he bade, and brought the gold to Aaron, which he took and molt it and made thereof a calf.  Then they said:  These be thy gods, Israel, that brought thee out of the land of Egypt.  Then the people made an altar tofore it, and made great joy and mirth, and danced and played tofore the calf, and offered and made sacrifices thereto.  Our Lord spake to Moses, saying:  Go hence and descend down, thy people have sinned whom thou hast brought forth from the land of Egypt.  They have soon forsaken and left the way which thou hast showed to them.  They have made to them a calf blown, and they have worshipped it, and offered sacrifices thereto, saying:  These be thy gods, Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, Yet said our Lord to Moses:  I see well that this people is of evil disposition, suffer me that I may wreak my wrath on them, and I shall destroy them.  I shall make thee governor of great people.

Moses then prayed our Lord God saying:  Why art thou wroth, Lord, against thy people that thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt in a great strength and a boisterous hand?  I beseech thee, Lord, let not the Egyptians say that their God hath locked them out for to slay them in the mountains.  I pray thee Lord that thy wrath may assuage, and be thou pleased and benign upon the wickedness of thy people.  Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob thy servants, to whom thou promisedst and swaredst by thyself saying:  I shall multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and the universal, land of which I have spoken I shall give to your seed, and ye shall possess and have it ever.  And with these words our Lord was pleased that he would do no harm as he had said unto his people; and Moses returned from the mount, bearing two tables of stone, written both with the hand of God.  And the scripture that was in the tables were the ten commandments as fore be written.  Joshua hearing the great noise of the children of Israel said to Moses:  I trow they fight beneath, which answered and said:  It is no cry of exhorting men to fight, ne noise to compel me to flee, but I hear the noise of singing.  When he approached to them he saw the calf and the instruments of mirth, and he was so wroth that he threw down the tables and brake them at the foot of the hill, and ran and caught down the calf that they had made, and burnt and smote it all to powder, which he cast into water and gave it to drink to the children of Israel.  Then said Moses to Aaron:  What hath this people done to thee that thou hast made to sin grievously?  To whom he answered:  Let not my lord take none indignation at me, thou knowest well that this people is prone and ready to sin.  They said to me:  Make us gods that may go tofore us; we know not what is fallen to this Moses that led us out of Egypt.  To whom I said:  Who of you that hath gold give