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

Blessings for Obedience

26 “You shall not make ^(A)idols for yourselves or erect an ^(B)image or ^(C)pillar, and you shall not set up a ^(D)figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.

^17 (A)“You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.

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

^3 (A)“You shall have no other gods before^[a] me.

^4 (B)“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 (C)You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am ^(D)a jealous God, ^(E)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

²¹ Little children, ^(A)keep yourselves from idols.

¹⁴ Therefore, my beloved, ^(A)flee from idolatry.

^15 (A)“‘Cursed be the man who makes a carved or cast metal image, an abomination to the Lord, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ ^(B)And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’