Warning Against Idolatry

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"Therefore, watch out for yourselves! Since you did not see a shape of any kind on the day ADONAI spoke to you in Horev from the fire,

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do not become corrupt and make yourselves a carved image having the shape of any figure - not a representation of a human being, male or female,

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or a representation of any animal on earth, or a representation of any bird that flies in the air,

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or a representation of anything that creeps along on the ground, or a representation of any fish in the water below the shoreline.

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For the same reason, do not look up at the sky, at the sun, moon, stars and everything in the sky, and be drawn away to worship and serve them; ADONAI your God has allotted these to all the peoples under the entire sky.

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No, you ADONAI has taken and brought out of the smelting furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of inheritance for him, as you are today.

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"But ADONAI was angry with me on account of you and swore that I would not cross the Yarden and go into that good land, which ADONAI your God is giving you to inherit.

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Rather, I must die in this land and not cross the Yarden; but you are to cross and take possession of that good land.

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Watch out for yourselves, so that you won't forget the covenant of ADONAI your God, which he made with you, and make yourself a carved image, a representation of anything forbidden to you by ADONAI your God.

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For ADONAI your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

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