4 “You must not make for yourself a carved image or a form like anything that is in the heavens above or that is on the earth underneath or that is in the waters under the earth.+

26 “‘YOU must not make valueless gods* for yourselves,+ and YOU must not set up a carved image+ or a sacred pillar for yourselves, and YOU must not put a stone as a showpiece+ in YOUR land in order to bow down toward it;+ for I am Jehovah YOUR God.

3 and he should go and worship other gods and bow down to them or to the sun or the moon or all the army* of the heavens,+ a thing that I have not commanded,+

15 “‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved image+ or a molten statue,+ a thing detestable to Jehovah,*+ the manufacture of the hands of a wood-and-metal worker,+ and who has put it in a hiding place.’ (And all the people must answer and say, ‘Amen!’*)+

4 So he returned the silver to his mother, and his mother took two hundred silver pieces and gave them to the silversmith.+ And he went making a carved image+ and a molten statue;+ and it got to be in Miʹcah’s house.

18 And these went into the house of Miʹcah and proceeded to take the carved image, the ephʹod and the teraphim and the molten image.+ At that the priest+ said to them: “What are YOU doing?”