Casting
Metal in these verses is poured, not carved. Job 28:2 notes that iron is taken out of the earth and brass “is molten out of the stone”, and in 1 Kings 7:46 the king casts the temple’s vessels in the clay ground by the Jordan. The same craft turns dark in Exodus 32, where the people say of a golden calf, “These be thy gods, O Israel”, and Aaron fashions it with a graving tool. After that the Law is plain: “Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.” Leviticus 19:4 repeats it. The skill is good, and what is made with it matters.
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Exodus
And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
Leviticus
Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
1 Kings
In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.