² Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold earrings^(A) that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.”

²⁴ And he said, “I do have one request, that each of you give me an earring^(A) from your share of the plunder.^(B)” (It was the custom of the Ishmaelites^(C) to wear gold earrings.)

²⁵ They answered, “We’ll be glad to give them.” So they spread out a garment, and each of them threw a ring from his plunder onto it. ²⁶ The weight of the gold rings he asked for came to seventeen hundred shekels,^[a] not counting the ornaments, the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian or the chains^(D) that were on their camels’ necks. ²⁷ Gideon made the gold into an ephod,^(E) which he placed in Ophrah,^(F) his town. All Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare^(G) to Gideon and his family.^(H)

¹⁷ You also took the fine jewelry I gave you, the jewelry made of my gold and silver, and you made for yourself male idols and engaged in prostitution with them.^(A)

¹¹ I adorned you with jewelry:^(A) I put bracelets^(B) on your arms and a necklace^(C) around your neck, ¹² and I put a ring on your nose,^(D) earrings^(E) on your ears and a beautiful crown^(F) on your head.^(G)

³⁵ The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold^(A) and for clothing.^{(B) 36} The Lord had made the Egyptians favorably disposed^(C) toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered^(D) the Egyptians.

²² All who were willing, men and women alike, came and brought gold jewelry of all kinds: brooches, earrings, rings and ornaments. They all presented their gold as a wave offering to the Lord.

⁴⁷ “I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’^(A)

“She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel^(B) son of Nahor, whom Milkah bore to him.’^(C)

“Then I put the ring in her nose^(D) and the bracelets on her arms,^(E)

²² When the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring^(A) weighing a beka^[a] and two gold bracelets^(B) weighing ten shekels.^[b]