3 Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. Something is always omitted when people use Exodus 20 to claim God forbids all images: the immediately surrounding words/context:Įxodus 20:1-6 (DRB) And the Lord spoke all these words: 2 I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. No, God did not contradict Himself, since He never forbade all kinds of images to begin with, that, going on to command images to be made, He could be said to contradict Himself. One piece with the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two Make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat.ġ9 Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. God commands graven images be placed on top of the Ark of the Covenant – the holiest religious artifact in all of Israel!ġ8 And you shall make two cherubim of gold of hammered work shall you
Upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten,ĩ>And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and itĬame to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the
Thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, orĨ>And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any
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