"Thou shall not kill" commandment is hypocritical?

[Wyrd of Gawd]

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Its my understanding that they were still worshiping "the god of Israel, who had delivered them from Egypt" (its been a while since I read the story but I'm sure that's what they say when they're making the calf) and they were basically killed for making a graven image and breaking the second commandment. A commandment none of them had even heard at the time...
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According to the fairy tale Moses had actually verbally told his herd not to make any graven images in Exodus 20:1-5.  When he went on his killing spree in Exodus chapter 32 the law was written on the stone tablets that he broke.  That was much later after he had first said it.