Exo 20:4, 23, 32:1-4, 34:17, Lev 19:4, 26:1, Deu 4:16-23, 5:8 | ESV | STEP | 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 .

Exodus 20:4

4 ^a“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.

Exodus 20:23

23 ^bYou shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.

Exodus 32:1-4

The Golden Calf

1 When the people saw that Moses ^cdelayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, ^d“Up, make us gods who shall ^ego before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” 2 So Aaron said to them, “Take off the ^frings of gold that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” 3 So all the people took off the rings of gold that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. 4 ^gAnd he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden ^{▼▼Hebrew cast metal; also verse 8} calf. And they said, ⁱ“These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

Exodus 34:17

17 ^j“You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.

Leviticus 19:4

4 ^kDo not turn to idols ^lor make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 26:1

Blessings for Obedience

1 “You shall not make ^midols for yourselves or erect an ⁿimage or ^opillar, and you shall not set up a ^pfigured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 4:16-23

16 beware ^qlest you act corruptly ^rby making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, ^sthe likeness of male or female, 17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, 18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth. 19 And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see ^tthe sun and the moon and the stars, ^uall the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven. 20 But the Lord has taken you and ^vbrought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, ^wto be a people of his own inheritance, as you are this day. 21 Furthermore, ^xthe Lord was angry with me because of you, and he swore that I should not cross the Jordan, and that I should not enter the good land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance. 22 For I must die in this land; ^yI must not go over the Jordan. But you shall go over and take possession of ^zthat good land. 23 ^aaTake care, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and ^abmake a carved image, the form of anything that the Lord your God has forbidden you.

Deuteronomy 5:8

8 “‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.