I've always thought that the 2nd commandment had to do with worship, because after the command, it says not to bow down and worship these things. The Israelites had just come from a culture where images of animals and people were made and then worshiped, and they were getting ready to go into a culture which worshiped images.

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J Baldwin
Keowee Presbyterian Church, PCA
Pickens, SC
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” Luke 10:27

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