The fight against “galamsey” under many code names has been renewed with fierce intensity. We are at it again, burning excavators without regard to Law, as “a method in dealing with an emergency.” The established place of the Bible as an authoritative source in scientific scholarship is not the focus of this article. However, I precede the views in this piece with a recount of an incident in the exodus of the Israelites recorded in Exodus 32 and 34. It is the story of the ten commandment found in Exodus 20:1 – 17.