16 And they kept leaving all the commandments+ of Jehovah their God and proceeded to make for themselves molten statues,+ two calves,+ and to make a sacred pole,+ and they began to bow down to all the army of the heavens+ and to serve Baʹal;+

2 “They* called them.+ To that same extent they went away from before them.*+ To the Baʹal images* they took up sacrificing,+ and to the graven images they began making sacrificial smoke.+