Idols - literally, “things of nothing.” Hebrew אלילים 'ĕlı̂ylı̂m. There appears to have been a play on the similarity in s…

Ye shall make you no idols. —The first two verses of this chapter are still a part of the previous section in the Hebrew …

You shall have no idols, or graven image
Some of the Jewish writers, as Jarchi and Aben Ezra, think this law against idolatry …

This chapter contains a general enforcement of all the laws given by Moses; by promises of reward for obedience, on the one hand; and threats of pu…