And when those who worshipped the calf instead of Allah regretted at the return of Moses to them, and saw that they had surely strayed from the objective of the path, and went away from the religion of Allah, they began in the acknowledgment with the servitude and the seeking of forgiveness, so they said: If our Lord does not have mercy on us by the acceptance of our repentance, and cover by it our sins, we will surely be of the perishing ones whose deeds have gone.