Exodus 20:3-5
20:3 “You shall have no other gods before me.
20:4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below.
20:5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me,
Exodus 34:14
34:14 For you must not worship
any other god,
for the
Lord, whose name
is Jealous, is a jealous God.
Leviticus 26:1
Exhortation to Obedience
26:1 “‘You must not make for yourselves idols, so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before it, for I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 4:19
4:19 When you look up
to the sky
and see the sun, moon, and stars – the whole heavenly creation
– you must not be seduced to worship and serve them,
for the
Lord your God has assigned
them to all the people
of the world.
Deuteronomy 5:7-9
5:7 You must not have any other gods
besides me.
5:8 You must not make for yourself an image
of anything in heaven above, on earth below, or in the waters beneath.
5:9 You must not worship or serve them, for I, the
Lord your God, am a jealous God. I punish
the sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons for the sin of the fathers who reject
me,