12 The Lord spoke to you out of the very fire itself. You heard the sound of words, but you didn’t see any form. There was only a voice.
13 The Lord declared his covenant to you, which he commanded you to do—the Ten Commandments—and wrote them on two stone tablets.
14 At that time, the Lord commanded me to teach you all the regulations and the case laws that you must keep in the land that you are entering to possess.
15 So watch your conduct closely, because you didn’t see any form on the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the very fire itself.
16 Don’t ruin everything and make an idol for yourself: a form of any image, any likeness—male or female—
17 or any likeness whatsoever, whether of a land animal, a bird that flies in the sky,
18 an insect that crawls on the earth, or a fish that lives in the sea.