There will be a great cry throughout the whole land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever will be again.

Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you, that you have brought on them so great a sin?”

The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a very serious sin, but now I will go up to the Lord – perhaps I can make atonement on behalf of your sin.”

So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Alas, this people has committed a very serious sin, and they have made for themselves gods of gold.

Pharaoh got up in the night, along with all his servants and all Egypt, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no house in which there was not someone dead.