Exodus 20:3-5
3 a“You shall have no other gods before ▼▼Or besides
me. 4 c“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 dYou shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am ea jealous God, fvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
Deuteronomy 4:15-18
Idolatry Forbidden
15 g“Therefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since hyou saw no form on the day that the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, 16beware ilest you act corruptly jby making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, kthe likeness of male or female, 17the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, 18the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth.Acts 7:40
40saying to Aaron, l‘Make for us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’Acts 17:29
29 mBeing then God’s offspring, nwe ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.Acts 19:26
26And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great many people, osaying that pgods made with hands are not gods.
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