^20 (A)“He who sacrifices to any god, except to the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed.

⁸ They have turned aside quickly out of the way which ^(A)I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ^(B)‘This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!’ ”

¹⁵ lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they ^(A)play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them ^(B)invites you and you ^(C)eat of his sacrifice,

^15 (A)Then he appointed for himself priests for the ^[a]high places, for ^(B)the demons, and ^(C)the calf idols which he had made.