day no. 14,409: cow pie

Exodus 32:24

So I said to them, ‘Let any who have gold take it off.’ So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”

According to Aaron's retelling of the story, it sounds like the gold became a cow and walked out of the fire asking to be worshiped. Absent from this version of events, of course, are the engraving tools he used to painstakingly fashion the lump of softened gold into the shape of a cow. Aaron knew enough to attempt to make his sin look less important. He didn't know enough to acknowledge that his God was more important.