And the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Behold your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!
And he took them from their hand and formed it with an engraving tool. And he made it a molten calf. And they said, These are your gods, O Israel, who made you go up from the land of Egypt.
They say, If a man sends away his wife, and she goes from him and will be for another man, will he return to her again? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you fornicate with many lovers; yet would you come back to Me, a statement of Jehovah.
And she did not leave her fornications from Egypt. For they lay with her in her youth, and they worked her virgin nipples and poured their fornications on her.
And I went in and looked. And, behold, every form of creeping thing, and detested beast, and all the idols of the house of Israel were carved on the wall round and round.
And He said to me, Son of man, have you seen? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah from doing the disgusting things which they do here? For they have filled the land with violence and have returned to provoke Me to anger. And, behold, they are putting the branch to their nose!
Now, then, fear Jehovah, and serve Him in sincerity and truth, and turn away from the gods which your fathers served Beyond the River, and in Egypt; and you serve Jehovah.