Genesis 1:26, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion" - humanity as the living image; the king makes a lifeless one.
Exodus 20:5, "You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them" - the command the whole plain of Dura is forced to break.
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
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