⁸ They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"

²⁷ Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.