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Leviticus 19:4 (Listen)

wDo not turn to idols xor make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 27:15 (Listen)

15 c“‘Cursed be the man who makes a carved or cast metal image, an abomination to the Lord, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ dAnd all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

Exodus 32:4 (Listen)

zAnd he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden1 calf. And they said, a“These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

Footnotes

[1] 32:4 Hebrew cast metal; also verse 8

Exodus 32:8 (Listen)

They have turned aside quickly out of the way that gI commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’”