and you did evil more than all who have been before you, and went and made for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me to anger; and you have cast Me behind your back.
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.
For I am Jehovah your God, and you have sanctified yourselves, and you have become holy, for I am holy. And you shall not defile your persons with any swarming thing which creeps on the earth;
You shall not make idols to yourselves; and you shall not set up for yourselves graven images, or a memorial pillar. And you shall not place any stone image in your land, to bow yourselves to it; for I am Jehovah your God.
Now set your heart from this day and forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day that Jehovah’s temple was founded; set it to your heart:
Cursed is the man who makes a carved or molten image, a disgusting thing to Jehovah, the work of a craftsman’s hands, and who sets it up in a secret place! And all the people shall answer and say, Amen!
You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; and you shall not covet the silver and gold on them, and not shall you take it to yourself, that you not be snared by it; for it is a disgusting thing to Jehovah.