Deuteronomy 4:10-17

10Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, when the Lord said to me, ‘Assemble the people to Me, that I may have them hear My words 1so that they may learn to 2fear Me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may 3teach their children.’ 11You came forward and stood at the foot of the mountain, 4and the mountain was burning with fire to the heart of the heavens: darkness, cloud, and thick gloom. 12Then the Lord spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but you saw no form--there was only a voice. 13So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, that is, 5the Ten 6Commandments; and 7He wrote them on two tablets of stone. 14The Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, so that you would perform them in the land where you are going over to take possession of it.

15“So 8be very careful 9yourselves, since you did not see any 10form on the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire, 16so that you do not 11act corruptly and 12make a carved image for yourselves in the form of any figure, a representation of male or female, 17a representation of any animal that is on the earth, a representation of 13any winged bird that flies in the sky,