- Bible
- Deuteronomy
- Chapter 5
- Verse 8
Deuteronomy 5:8
Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:
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Compare Exo. 20 and notes. Moses here adopts the Ten Words as a ground from which he may proceed to reprove, warn, and exhort; and repeats them, with a certain measure of freedom and adaptation. Our…
Here is the repetition of the ten commandments, in which observe, 1. Though they had been spoken before, and written, yet they are again rehearsed; for precept must be upon precept, and line upon…
The Second Commandment; the differences from Exo 20:4-6 are very slight (Ex. has the conjunction before any formand omits it before the third) and the Versions show them to be uncertain. On the…