So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron.

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Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish(A)
    and gold from Uphaz.
What the craftsman and goldsmith have made(B)
    is then dressed in blue and purple—
    all made by skilled workers.

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Some pour out gold from their bags
    and weigh out silver on the scales;
they hire a goldsmith(A) to make it into a god,
    and they bow down and worship it.(B)

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19 As for an idol,(A) a metalworker casts it,
    and a goldsmith(B) overlays it with gold(C)
    and fashions silver chains for it.
20 A person too poor to present such an offering
    selects wood(D) that will not rot;
they look for a skilled worker
    to set up an idol(E) that will not topple.(F)

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When he returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I solemnly consecrate my silver to the Lord for my son to make an image overlaid with silver.(A) I will give it back to you.”

So after he returned the silver to his mother, she took two hundred shekels[a] of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who used them to make the idol.(B) And it was put in Micah’s house.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 17:4 That is, about 5 pounds or about 2.3 kilograms

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