Deuteronomy 4:17

the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,

In Context

16Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make for you a graven image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

18the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth.

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Cross References

Romans 1:23and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image like corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed things, and creeping things.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 4:2-41

Exhortations and Arguments. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you. 2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. 3 Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed… Read the whole commentary →

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