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Unfinished generic male and female wooden carvings beside unused tools.
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Deuteronomy 4:16

No Male or Female Image

Remember Horeb, Guard the Covenant · Deuteronomy 4

Story guide: This prohibition object essay illustrates forbidden carved human likenesses; it does not depict Israel performing a new act of worship.

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16so that you do not act corruptly and make for yourselves a carved image, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female—

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