When some shepherds came and drove them away, Moses came up and defended them and then watered their flock.

They said, “An Egyptian man rescued us from the shepherds, and he actually drew water for us and watered the flock!”

The Lord said to Aaron, “Go to the wilderness to meet Moses. So he went and met him at the mountain of God and greeted him with a kiss.

Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him; they each asked about the other’s welfare, and then they went into the tent.

He took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, poured it out on the water, and made the Israelites drink it.