⁶ So the children of Israel took off their ornaments at Mount Horeb, and did not put them on again.

⁴ Hearing this bad news the people were full of grief, and no one put on his ornaments.

³ And all the people took the gold rings from their ears and gave them to Aaron.

¹⁹ The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.