² And Aaron said to them, “Break off the ^(A)golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”

²⁴ Then Gideon said to them, “I would like to ^[a]make a request of you, that each of you would give me the earrings from his plunder.” For they had golden earrings, ^(A)because they were Ishmaelites.

²⁵ So they answered, “We will gladly give them.” And they spread out a garment, and each man threw into it the earrings from his plunder. ²⁶ Now the weight of the gold earrings that he requested was one thousand seven hundred shekels of gold, besides the crescent ornaments, pendants, and purple robes which were on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were around their camels’ necks. ²⁷ Then Gideon ^(B)made it into an ephod and set it up in his city, ^(C)Ophrah. And all Israel ^(D)played the harlot with it there. It became ^(E)a snare to Gideon and to his house.

³⁵ Now the children of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, and they had asked from the Egyptians ^(A)articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing. ^36 (B)And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they granted them what they requested. Thus ^(C)they plundered the Egyptians.

¹⁷ You have also taken your beautiful jewelry from My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images and played the harlot with them.

¹¹ I adorned you with ornaments, ^(A)put bracelets on your wrists, ^(B)and a chain on your neck. ¹² And I put a ^[a]jewel in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

²² They came, both men and women, as many as had a willing heart, and brought ^(A)earrings and nose rings, rings and necklaces, all ^(B)jewelry of gold, that is, every man who made an offering of gold to the Lord.

⁴⁷ Then I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ And she said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the nose ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.

²² So it was, when the camels had finished drinking, that the man took a golden ^(A)nose ring weighing half a shekel, and two bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels of gold,