By Elimu Assistant Team 
- Moses had gone up the mountain to seek God’s guidance/instructions.
- Aaron had been left in charge of the people.
- Moses delayed in returning/the people became impatient.
- Israelites asked Aaron to make them a god that would lead them.
- Aaron yielded to the demands of the Israelites/made them a golden calf to worship.
- Aaron built an altar at the foot of the mountain/put the calf.
- The people worshiped the calf/made sacrifices to it.
- God was angered/ set to destroy the Israelites.
- Moses interceded on behalf of the people.
- When Moses came down from the mountain he was angry with the people/broke the stone tablet on which the Ten Commandments were written.
- Israelites were given a chance to choose between following Yahweh or the golden calf.
- Those who followed the golden calf were destroyed/killed.
