Deuteronomy 5:8

8 "You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, [nor] any likeness [of anything] that is in heaven above, or that is in the eretz beneath, or that is in the water under the eretz:

Deuteronomy 5:8 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 5:8

(See Gill on Deuteronomy 5:6).

Deuteronomy 5:8 In-Context

6 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Mitzrayim, out of the house of bondage.

7 You shall have no other gods before me.

8 "You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, [nor] any likeness [of anything] that is in heaven above, or that is in the eretz beneath, or that is in the water under the eretz:

9 you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;

10 and showing lovingkindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my mitzvot.