Exodus 34:17

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¹⁷“Do not make any idols.^(A)

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Leviticus 19:4

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⁴“‘Do not turn to idols or make metal gods for yourselves.^(A) I am the Lord your God.^(B)

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Exodus 32:8

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⁸They have been quick to turn away^(A) from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol^(B) cast in the shape of a calf.^(C) They have bowed down to it and sacrificed^(D) to it and have said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.’^(E)

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Isaiah 46:6-7

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⁶Some pour out gold from their bags
    and weigh out silver on the scales;
they hire a goldsmith^(A) to make it into a god,
    and they bow down and worship it.^(B)
⁷They lift it to their shoulders and carry^(C) it;
    they set it up in its place, and there it stands.
    From that spot it cannot move.^(D)
Even though someone cries out to it, it cannot answer;^(E)
    it cannot save^(F) them from their troubles.

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Acts 19:26

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²⁶And you see and hear how this fellow Paul has convinced and led astray large numbers of people here in Ephesus^(A) and in practically the whole province of Asia.^(B) He says that gods made by human hands are no gods at all.^(C)

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Acts 17:29

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²⁹“Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill.^(A)

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Jeremiah 10:14

New International Version

¹⁴Everyone is senseless and without knowledge;
every goldsmith is shamed^(A) by his idols.
The images he makes are a fraud;^(B)
they have no breath in them.