Or HaChaim on Deuteronomy 9:21/אור החיים על דברים ט׳:כ״א

1 ואת חטאתכם…לקחתי, "and I took your sin, etc." Moses hinted that when he burned the golden calf this also resulted in his burning the "sin" itself and the power which it represented. Please compare what I have written on Exodus 32,20: "he took the calf which they had made."