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"You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, [nor] any likeness [of anything] that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
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A Re-Telling for a New Time
The provided commentaries do not focus on this specific verse, as it is nearly identical to its parallel in Exodus 20. Instead, scholars use this chapter to highlight the differences between the two accounts of the Ten Commandments. They explain that Moses adapts the laws, like the Sabbath commandment, to provide new motivations for the generation about to enter the Promised Land, emphasizing the substance of the law over the exact wording.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Compare Exodus 20 and notes.
Moses here adopts the Ten Words as a ground from which he may proceed to reprove, warn, and exhort; and repeats…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
(See Gill on Deuteronomy 5:6).
There is some variation here from Exodus 20, similar to the variation between the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6 and Luke 11. It is more necessary that…