The table below presents two contradictory verses. Both verses talk about idolatry. The underlined words highlight the contradiction. One verse says Idolatry is severely prohibited, while the other verse says the idolatrous celestial beings were apportioned to the nations! Which is it? Is idolatry prohibited to the nations or is it given/apportioned to them? Rashi simply resolves this using the Broad-Literal method: Idolatry is prohibited. But God apportioned great forces to the nations of the world. If they willfully ignore God's commands and worship them God does not intefer since He tests people by allowing them to sin. This aspect of God as someone who tests man and allows him to conquer or acquiesce to sin is explicitly stated in Dt13-02:04. So in summary the statement that God apportioned these to the non-Jews can be interpreted literally - He apportioned their power for non Jews to harvest - or broadly - He apportioned them to test non Jews and let them worship idols and fail.

Summary	Verse / Source	Text of verse / Source
Idolatry is absolutely prohibited	Dt12-02:03	You shall completely destroy all the places, where the nations which you shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree; And you shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the carved images of their gods, and destroy their names out of that place.
God apportioned the worshipped objects to the nations	Dt04-16:19b	Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make you an engraved image, the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, The likeness of any thing that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth; #####
Resolution:	Broad-Literal	Idolatry is prohibited. But God apportioned great forces to the nations of the world. If they willfully ignore God's commands and worship them God does not intefer since He tests people by allowing them to sin. This aspect of God as someone who tests man and allows him to conquer or acquiesce to sin is explicitly stated in Dt13-02:04. So in summary the statement that God apportioned these to the non-Jews can be interpreted literally - He apportioned their power for non Jews to harvest - or broadly - He apportioned them to test non Jews and let them worship idols and fail.