¹⁶ When I looked, I saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made for yourselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf.^(A) You had turned aside quickly from the way that the Lord had commanded you.

⁴¹ That was the time they made an idol in the form of a calf. They brought sacrifices to it and reveled in what their own hands had made.^(A)

³ When he returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I solemnly consecrate my silver to the Lord for my son to make an image overlaid with silver.^(A) I will give it back to you.”

⁴ So after he returned the silver to his mother, she took two hundred shekels^[a] of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who used them to make the idol.^(B) And it was put in Micah’s house.