World English Bible
Deuteronomy 4:17
“the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,”
Verse in context — Deuteronomy 4
Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire.
Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
About Deuteronomy
Moses’ final speeches, reminding Israel of God’s law before entering the Promised Land.
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