12 Thus they abandoned Jehovah the God of their fathers who had brought them out of the land of Egypt+ and went following other gods from among the gods of the peoples who were all around them+ and they began bowing down to them, so that they offended Jehovah.+

12 And they continued to serve* dungy idols,+ concerning which Jehovah had said to them: “YOU must not do this thing”;+

17 Eʹphra·im is joined with idols.+ Let him be to himself!+