The people of Moses took up in his absence a calf [cast] from their ornaments—a body that gave out a lowing sound. Did they not regard that it did not speak to them, nor did it guide them to any way? They took it up [for worship] and they were wrongdoers.
ムーサーの民は，かれの（去った）後，自分の装飾品で鳴き声の出る形だけの仔牛を造った。かれらはそれがものも言わず，また道案内も出来ないことが分らないのか。かれらはそれを（神として）とり，不義を行った。