Exodus 20:4-5

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. 5 bYou shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am ca jealous God, dvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Exodus 32:4

4 eAnd 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, gThese are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

Deuteronomy 4:14-17

14And hthe Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, that you might do them in the land that you are going over to possess.

Idolatry Forbidden

15 i“Therefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since jyou saw no form on the day that the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, 16beware klest you act corruptly lby making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, mthe 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,
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