6 “In case your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or your cherished wife* or your companion who is like your own soul,+ should try to allure you in secrecy, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’+ whom you have not known, neither you nor your forefathers,

15 “‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved image+ or a molten statue,+ a thing detestable to Jehovah,*+ the manufacture of the hands of a wood-and-metal worker,+ and who has put it in a hiding place.’ (And all the people must answer and say, ‘Amen!’*)+

12 And he proceeded to say to me: “Have you seen, O son of man, what the elderly ones of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness,+ each one in the inner rooms of his showpiece? For they are saying, ‘Jehovah is not seeing us.*+ Jehovah has left the land.’”*