⁸ They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. ^(A)They have made for themselves a cast metal calf, and have worshiped it and ^(B)have sacrificed to it and said, ‘^[a](C)This is your god, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!’”

¹⁵ otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they would prostitute themselves with their gods and ^(A)sacrifice to their gods, and someone ^(B)might invite you ^[a]to eat of his sacrifice,

⁷ And ^(A)they shall no longer offer their sacrifices to the ^[a]goat demons with which they play the prostitute. This shall be a permanent statute to them throughout their generations.”’

² For ^(A)they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

² “^(A)If there is found in your midst, in any of your ^[a]towns which the Lord your God is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, by violating His covenant, ³ and that person has gone and ^(B)served other gods and worshiped them, ^(C)or the sun, the moon, or any of the heavenly ^[b]lights, ^(D)which I have commanded not to do,