²³ You shall not make anything to be ^(A)with Me—gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves.

¹⁶ And ^(A)I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God—had made for yourselves a molded calf! You had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you.

³ So when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, “I had wholly dedicated the silver from my hand to the Lord for my son, to ^(A)make a carved image and a molded image; now therefore, I will return it to you.”

⁴ Thus he returned the silver to his mother. Then his mother ^(A)took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to the silversmith, and he made it into a carved image and a molded image; and they were in the house of Micah.

²⁸ Therefore the king asked advice, ^(A)made two calves of gold, and said to the people, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. ^(B)Here are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt!”

^41 (A)And they made a calf in those days, offered sacrifices to the idol, and ^(B)rejoiced in the works of their own hands.