Danger of Idolatry. ¹⁵ Because you saw no form at all on the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire, be strictly on your guard ¹⁶ not to act corruptly by fashioning an idol for yourselves to represent any figure, whether it be the form of a man or of a woman,^{(A) 17} the form of any animal on the earth, the form of any bird that flies in the sky, ¹⁸ the form of anything that crawls on the ground, or the form of any fish in the waters under the earth. ¹⁹ And when you look up to the heavens and behold the sun or the moon or the stars, the whole heavenly host, do not be led astray into bowing down to them and serving them.^(B) These the Lord, your God, has apportioned to all the other nations under the heavens; ²⁰ but you the Lord has taken and led out of that iron foundry, Egypt, that you might be his people, his heritage, as you are today.^(C)

⁸ You shall not make for yourself an idol or a likeness of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters beneath the earth; ^9 [a]you shall not bow down before them or serve them. For I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous^[b] God, bringing punishment for their parents’ wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation,

⁴ You shall not make for yourself an idol^(A) or a likeness of anything^[a] in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters beneath the earth;

²³ You shall not make alongside of me gods of silver, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.^(A)