And now you have surely gone because you greatly long for your father’s house, but why did you steal my gods?”

With whomever you find your gods, do not let him live. In the presence of our brethren, identify what I have of yours and take it with you.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

And Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments.

So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree which was by Shechem.

‘For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.

“Who is like You, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders?

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods; for in the very thing in which they behaved proudly, He was above them.”

“You shall have no other gods before Me.

You shall not make anything to be with Me—gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves.

“And in all that I have said to you, be circumspect and make no mention of the name of other gods, nor let it be heard from your mouth.

You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.

You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

The Gold Calf

Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”

For they said to me, ‘Make us gods that shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’

lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you and you eat of his sacrifice,

and you take of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.

“You shall make no molded gods for yourselves.

‘Do not turn to idols, nor make for yourselves molded gods: I am the Lord your God.

They invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

For the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the Lord had killed among them. Also on their gods the Lord had executed judgments.

And there you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

‘You shall have no other gods before Me.

You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are all around you

For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.