Deuteronomy 4:13-16

13And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, the ten words; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.

14And Jehovah commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that ye might do them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it.

15And take great heed to your souls (for ye saw no form on the day that Jehovah spoke to you in Horeb from the midst of the fire),

16lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the form of any figure, the pattern of male or female,