4 Then he took [the gold]* from their hands, and he formed it+ with a graving tool and proceeded to make it into a molten statue of a calf.+ And they* began to say: “This is your God,* O Israel, who led you up out of the land of Egypt.”+

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.

6 There are those who are lavishing out the gold from the purse, and with the scale beam they weigh out the silver. They hire a metalworker, and he makes it into a god.*+ They prostrate themselves, yes, they bow down.+

4 They themselves have set up kings,+ but not because of me. They have set up princes, but I did not know [it]. With their silver and their gold they have made for themselves idols,+ to the end that they* may be cut off.+

2 And now they commit additional sin and make for themselves a molten statue from their silver,+ idols according to their own understanding,+ the work of craftsmen, all of it.+ To them they are saying, ‘Let the sacrificers who are men* kiss mere calves.’+