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!’*)+
3 Accordingly he gave back the thousand one hundred pieces of silver to his mother;+ and his mother went on to say: “I must without fail sanctify the silver to Jehovah from my hand for my son, so as to make a carved image+ and a molten statue;+ and now I shall give it back to you.”*