²⁴ And Gideon said to them, I would ask an asking from you, that you would give to me, each man^◦ the earring of his spoil. For they had gold earrings, for they were Ishmaelites.

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.