Thou Shalt Not Bow Down Thyself to Them
In our family scripture study yesterday, my eight-year-old son asked about the golden calf and whether the Israelites really made it and then worshipped it. When I confirmed this was the case, he got a funny look on his face and said, “That’s just weird.” I think most of us would agree. The account says this: “And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.” The people were anxious that Moses had not come back after about forty days. It seems as if they supposed they would never see him again. Perhaps they assumed he had been killed by a wild beast or starved to death or had some other accident that took his life. They may have been afraid without their leader, and so they sought something they could rely on. Inexplicably, Aaron complied w...