16 Then I looked, and there YOU had sinned against Jehovah YOUR God! YOU had made yourselves a molten calf.+ YOU had turned aside quickly from the way about which Jehovah had commanded YOU.+

9 The formers of the carved image are all of them an unreality,+ and their darlings* themselves will be of no benefit;+ and as their witnesses* they see nothing and know nothing,+ in order that they may be ashamed.+

6 There are those who are lavishing out the gold from the purse, and with the scale beam they weigh out the silver. They hire a metalworker, and he makes it into a god.*+ They prostrate themselves, yes, they bow down.+

41 So they made a calf in those days+ and brought up a sacrifice to the idol and began to enjoy themselves in the works of their hands.+