He took what they handed him and made it into an idol(A) cast in the shape of a calf,(B) fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods,[a](C) Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 32:4 Or This is your god; also in verse 8

(A)And he received the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded calf.

Then they said, “This is your god, O Israel, that (B)brought you out of the land of Egypt!”

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They will not look to the altars,(A)
    the work of their hands,(B)
and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles[a](C)
    and the incense altars their fingers(D) have made.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 17:8 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah

He will not look to the altars,
The work of his hands;
He will not respect what his (A)fingers have made,
Nor the [a]wooden images nor the incense altars.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 17:8 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities