World English Bible
Deuteronomy 4:16
“Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,”
Verse in context — Deuteronomy 4
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Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.
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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.
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Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
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the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
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the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
About Deuteronomy
Moses’ final speeches, reminding Israel of God’s law before entering the Promised Land.
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