 when they entered into the covenant, they said, look, God, you're too powerful. We've just seen your might, and so we don't want to come before you, but let's have Moses as our mediator. You speak with him. So their mediator had gone on to the mountain. They hadn't come down for 40 days. They were thinking in their Egyptian slavery mindset, we need another God. Oh, in Egypt, we had the calf. So let's build a golden calf, and then let's use that to worship God as our mediator. And so read the account in,