¹⁹ And he said, They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As Jehovah lives, if^◦ you had let· them ·live, I would not kill you.

⁸ they have turned·​·aside hastily from the way which I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which made thee to come up out of the land of Egypt.