Story from the Bible
Remember God’s covenant with the Israelites? He told them, “I will be your God, and you will be my people.” The covenant had a condition — they must obey God’s rules. One of these rules was: You will not pray to a statue or perform magic rituals.
Read in the Bible what the Israelites had done. If you do not have a Bible or cannot search in it, click on the frame to see what is written in the Bible.
Exodus, chapter 32, verses 3 and 4
So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”