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The commandment has two parts, the creation of an image and the bowing down or worship of said image. Its this second part that qualifies the first. In other words if God meant not to make any image He wouldn't have then commanded the construction of the Ark with the Cherubim or the Bronze Serpent later on in the text. The Bronze serpent later became an idol so it was destroyed but was not intended as such when created. More importantly the Bronze serpent is type and shadow of Christ.x 20:3 You shall have no other gods before Me. 4 You shall not make for yourself an idol of any kind, or an image of anything in the heavens above, the earth below, or the waters under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,…
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