Exodus 20:4-6
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[4] "You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: [5] you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me, [6] and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageEgypt was the land of Israel’s slavery and a center of visible religious images and many gods. In forbidding idols, God distinguishes himself from Egypt’s worship and calls the redeemed Israelites to covenant faithfulness to him alone.
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