³⁵ The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had ^(A)asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewellery and for clothing. ^36 (B)And the Lord had given the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that ^(C)they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.

²⁴ And Gideon said to them, “Let me make a request of you: every one of you give me the earrings from his spoil.” (For they had golden earrings, ^(A)because they were Ishmaelites.) ²⁵ And they answered, “We will willingly give them.” And they spread a cloak, and every man threw in it the earrings of his spoil. ²⁶ And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels^[a] of gold, besides ^(B)the crescent ornaments and ^(C)the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, and besides the collars that were round the necks of their camels. ²⁷ And Gideon ^(D)made an ephod of it and put it in his city, ^(E)in Ophrah. And all Israel ^(F)whored after it there, and it became a ^(G)snare to Gideon and to his family.