Acts 7:41-42 And so the people fashioned a calf out of gold and offered an animal sacrifice to this idol and then celebrated joyously over what they had done : - ;

AUV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴¹ And so the people fashioned a calf [out of gold] and offered [an animal] sacrifice to this idol and [then] celebrated joyously over what they had done [See Exodus 32:4-6; 17-19]. ⁴² But God turned [away from them] and allowed them to worship heavenly bodies [i.e., stars], just as it was written in the prophet [Amos 5:25ff], 'Did you offer me slain animals as sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, you Israelites?