⁴ “^(A)You shall not make for yourself ^[a]an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.

Blessings of Obedience

26 ‘You shall not make for yourselves ^[a](A)idols, nor shall you set up for yourselves ^(B)an image or ^(C)a sacred pillar, nor shall you place a ^(D)figured stone in your land to bow down ^[b]to it; for I am the Lord your God.

⁸ ‘^(A)You shall not make for yourself ^[a]an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above ^[b]or on the earth beneath ^[c]or in the water under the earth. ⁹ You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, ^(B)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,

¹⁵ ‘Cursed is the man who makes ^[a](A)an idol or a molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ And ^(B)all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

²³ and ^(A)exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and ^[a]crawling creatures.