You must not make yourselves molten gods.

“不可为自己铸造神像。

“不可为自己铸造神像。

“不可为自己铸造神像。

“不可为自己铸造神像。

你不可为自己铸造神像。

「不可為自己鑄造神像。

「不可為自己鑄造神像。

「不可為自己鑄造神像。

「不可為自己鑄造神像。

你不可為自己鑄造神像。

『不可為自己造鑄像的神。

勿鑄神像、

毋鑄上帝像。

爾毋為己鑄神像、

“ Do not make any idols.

“ Do not make any statues of gods.

“ You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.

You must not make any gods of molten metal for yourselves.

“ Do not make cast images of gods for yourselves.

You shall not make for yourself any gods cast in metal.

“ You shall make no molded gods for yourselves.

Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

“ Do not make cast images of gods for yourselves.

Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

“ You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.

Do not turn to idols, and you must not make for yourselves gods of cast metal. I am the LORD your God.

They have quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them– they have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said,‘ These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt.’”

Those who empty out gold from a purse and weigh out silver on the scale hire a metalsmith, who makes it into a god. They then bow down and worship it.They put it on their shoulder and carry it; they put it in its place and it just stands there; it does not move from its place. Even when someone cries out to it, it does not reply; it does not deliver him from his distress.

So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.

All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.

And you see and hear that this Paul has persuaded and turned away a large crowd, not only in Ephesus but in practically all of the province of Asia, by saying that gods made by hands are not gods at all.