Exodus 34:17
You shall make no molten gods for yourselves.
BSB
ASV
Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
KJV
Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
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"You shall make for yourself no molten gods." You see that he forbids the making of images because of idolatry and that it is impossible to make an image of the bodiless, invisible and uncircumscribed God. "You saw no form on the day that the Lord spoke.…" And St. Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, says, "Being therefore God's offspring, we ought not to think that the Deity is like gold, or silver or stone, a representation by the art and imagination of man."
Moses bowed . . . and worshipped--In the East, people bow the head to royalty, and are silent when it passes by, while in the West, they take off their hats and shout.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Jeremiah 10:14Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
leads to
They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;
Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. They cry out to it, but it does not…
What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.
Through
Leviticus 19:4Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.
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You are not to make any gods alongside Me; you are not to make for yourselves gods of silver or gold.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am…
Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
