10 The day that thou didst stand before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said unto me, Gather the people together unto me, and I will make them hear my words that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth and that they may teach their sons.
11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of the heavens, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
12 And the Lord spoke unto you out of the midst of the fire; ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no likeness; only ye heard a voice.
13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, the ten words; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
14 And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you the statutes and rights that ye might do them in the land which ye are about to enter to possess.
15 Diligently guard, therefore, your souls, for ye saw no manner of likeness on the day that the Lord spoke unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire,
16 lest ye corrupt yourselves and make yourselves a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,