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Deuteronomy 4:16

Lest all of you corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the embodiment of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

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In The King James Version

Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

In Context

15Take all of you therefore good heed unto yourselves; for all of you saw no manner of embodiment on the day that the LORD spoke unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:

17The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flies in the air,

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Cross References

Exodus 20:4You shall not make unto you any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

Leviticus 19:4Turn all of you not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 4:23Take heed unto yourselves, lest all of you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD your God has forbidden you.

Deuteronomy 5:8You shall not make you any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:

Deuteronomy 27:15Cursed be the man that makes any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and puts it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

Isaiah 40:18To whom then will all of you liken God? or what likeness will all of you compare unto him?

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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