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,Deuteronomy 4:16-18
16beware elest you act corruptly fby making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, gthe 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.Deuteronomy 4:28
28And hthere you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, ithat neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.Acts 17:29
29 jBeing then God’s offspring, kwe 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.Romans 1:23
23and lexchanged the glory of mthe immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
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