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. ^5 (B)You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a ^(C)jealous God, ^(D)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, ⁶ but showing lovingkindness to ^(E)thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

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.

¹⁵ “So ^(A)watch yourselves carefully, since you did not see any ^(B)form on the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire, ¹⁶ so that you do not ^(C)act corruptly and ^(D)make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, ¹⁷ the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of ^(E)any winged bird that flies in the sky, ¹⁸ the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth.

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.’