Deuteronomy 4:10-17

10The day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, ‘Assemble the people before me, and I will let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days they live on the earth and may instruct their children.’

11You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire into the heavens and enveloped in a totally black cloud.

12Then the Lord spoke to you from the fire. You kept hearing the sound of the words, but didn’t see a form; there was only a voice.

13He declared his covenant to you. He commanded you to follow the Ten Commandments, which he wrote on two stone tablets.

14At that time the Lord commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to follow in the land you are about to cross into and possess.

15“Diligently watch yourselves — because you did not see any form on the day the Lord spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb —

16so you don’t act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves in the shape of any figure: a male or female form,

17or the form of any animal on the earth, any winged creature that flies in the sky,