4 Then he took [the gold]* from their hands, and he formed it+ with a graving tool and proceeded to make it into a molten statue of a calf.+ And they* began to say: “This is your God,* O Israel, who led you up out of the land of Egypt.”+

39 ‘And it must serve as a fringed edge for YOU, and YOU must see it and remember all the commandments+ of Jehovah and do them, and YOU must not go about following YOUR hearts and YOUR eyes,+ which YOU are following in immoral intercourse.*+

2 And the women came calling the people to the sacrifices of their gods,+ and the people began to eat and to bow down to their gods.+

26 And he went acting very detestably by going after the dungy idols,+ the same as all that the Amʹor·ites had done, whom Jehovah drove out from before the sons of Israel.’”+

4 Therefore speak with them and you must say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said: “Any man at all* of the house of Israel that brings up his dungy idols+ upon his heart and that places the very stumbling block causing his error in front of his face and that actually comes to the prophet, I, Jehovah, I will let myself be brought to answer him in the matter according to the multitude of his dungy idols,+

42 So God turned and handed them over+ to render sacred service to the army of heaven, just as it is written in the book of the prophets,+ ‘It was not to me that YOU offered victims and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, was it, O house of Israel?+