Aaron said to them, “(A)Tear off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”

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Then he took the gold from their [a]hands, and fashioned it with an engraving tool and made it into a (A)cast metal calf; and they said, “[b]This is your god, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 32:4 Lit hand
  2. Exodus 32:4 Or These are your gods

He then returned the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I wholly consecrate the silver from my hand to the Lord for my son (A)to make a carved image and a cast metal image; so now I will return [a]them to you.” So when he returned the silver to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith, who made [b]them into a carved image and a cast metal image, and [c]they were in the house of Micah.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 17:3 Lit it
  2. Judges 17:4 Lit it
  3. Judges 17:4 Lit it was

Those who (A)lavish gold from the bag
And weigh silver on the scale,
Hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god;
They (B)bow down, indeed they worship it.

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