Silver spread into plates is brought from Tharsis, and gold from Ophaz: the work of the artificer and of the hand of the coppersmith: violet and purple is their clothing: all these things are the work of artificers.
So they gave him all the strange gods they had, and the earrings which were in their ears: and he buried them under the turpentine tree, that is behind the city of Sichem.
And when he had received them, he fashioned them by founders' work, and made of them a molten calf. And they said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.