This one will be quick. It has mostly to do with the 'Golden Calf' incident.
Now, Moses is up on Mount Sinai, and the people down below are wondering what's going on. They ask Aaron to make them something they can worship because who knows when god-boy Moses is coming down or if he's even alive.
So Aaron gets all their gold jewelry, smelts it and melts it, and voila! a handcrafted golden calf by Aaron, speaker to Moses' thinker. Which the people ask if they can worship and Aaron says they can. And everything is a-ok!
Oh ohs! God tells Moses to better hurry down as the people are acting like heathens. Moses gets there and is understandably outraged. He asks Aaron for an explanation and to Aaron's credit, he tells the truth.
Now, instead of punishing Aaron, Moses deems the unruly rabble as guilty and asks "who serves the lord?" Of course, the Levites bring up their swords and slay 3000 of the Israelites. (who knew priests had swords? Explains the nifty Ephods, though)
Who would you punish? The leader that said it was ok to worship a golden calf he himself helped make or the people who's only crime was to ask and then to follow this 'false' leader?
Or was Moses never going to find one of the people he deigned worthy guilty of anything?
Oh, you all know my guess.
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