Objects
carved-image
The Decalogue forbids making a carved image or any likeness of anything in heaven, on earth, or in the waters under the earth, or bowing down to such images.
Category
Objects
First mention
Exodus 20:4
Tags
3
Exodus 20CommandmentIdolatry
Scripture references
- Exodus 20:4
'You shall not make yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything in heaven above or on earth beneath or in the waters under the earth.
- Exodus 20:5
'You shall not bow down to them or serve them. For I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God and I punish a parent's fault in the children, the grandchildren, and the great-grandchildren among those who hate me;