Deuteronomy 4:10-17

10especially concerning the day you stood before the Lord your God in Horeb, when the Lord said to me, ‘Gather the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.’

11“Then you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the midst of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.

12And the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of the words, but saw no form; you only heard a voice.

13So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.

14And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might observe them in the land which you cross over to possess.

15“Take careful heed to yourselves, for you saw no form when the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire,

16lest you act corruptly and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of any figure: the likeness of male or female,

17the likeness of any animal that is on the earth or the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,