16 lest you (A)act corruptly and (B)make for yourselves a carved image in the [a]form of any figure: (C)the likeness of male or female, 17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth or the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, 18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground or the likeness of any fish that is in the water beneath the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 4:16 similitude

16 so that you do not become corrupt(A) and make for yourselves an idol,(B) an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman, 17 or like any animal on earth or any bird that flies in the air,(C) 18 or like any creature that moves along the ground or any fish in the waters below.

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20 Thus (A)they changed their glory
Into the image of an ox that eats grass.

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20 They exchanged their glorious God(A)
    for an image of a bull, which eats grass.

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11 (A)Has a nation changed its gods,
Which are (B)not gods?
(C)But My people have changed their Glory
For what does not profit.

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11 Has a nation ever changed its gods?
    (Yet they are not gods(A) at all.)
But my people have exchanged their glorious(B) God
    for worthless idols.

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29 Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, (A)we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising.

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29 “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill.(A)

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