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.”