16 I saw how you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made a calf image for yourselves. You had quickly turned from the way the Lord had commanded for you.

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16 When I looked, I saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made for yourselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf.(A) You had turned aside quickly from the way that the Lord had commanded you.

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16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the Lord had commanded you.

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He returned the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I personally consecrate(A) the silver to the Lord for my son’s benefit to make a carved image overlaid with silver.”[a] So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took five pounds of silver and gave it to a silversmith. He made it into a carved image overlaid with silver,[b] and it was in Micah’s house.

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  1. Judges 17:3 Or image and a cast image
  2. Judges 17:4 Or image and a cast image

When he returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I solemnly consecrate my silver to the Lord for my son to make an image overlaid with silver.(A) I will give it back to you.”

So after he returned the silver to his mother, she took two hundred shekels[a] of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who used them to make the idol.(B) And it was put in Micah’s house.

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  1. Judges 17:4 That is, about 5 pounds or about 2.3 kilograms

And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.

Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.

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28 So the king sought advice.

Then he made two golden calves, and he said to the people, “Going to Jerusalem is too difficult for you. Israel, here is your God[a] who brought you out of the land of Egypt.”(A)

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  1. 1 Kings 12:28 Or here are your gods

28 After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves.(A) He said to the people, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”(B)

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28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

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18 Even after they had cast an image of a calf
for themselves and said,
“This is your God who brought you out of Egypt,”(A)
and they had committed terrible blasphemies,

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18 even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf(A) and said, ‘This is your god, who brought you up out of Egypt,’ or when they committed awful blasphemies.(B)

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18 Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;

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19 At Horeb they made a calf
and worshiped the cast metal image.(A)

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19 At Horeb they made a calf(A)
    and worshiped an idol cast from metal.

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19 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.

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41 They even made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to the idol, and were celebrating what their hands had made.(A)

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41 That was the time they made an idol in the form of a calf. They brought sacrifices to it and reveled in what their own hands had made.(A)

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41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

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