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The table below presents
two contradictory verses.
Both verses talk about
the making of idols.
The underlined words highlight the contradiction.
One verse says
idols which God commanded you
while the other verse says
don't make idols.
Which is it?
Are idols permitted or prohibited?
Rashi simply resolves this using the
broad-literal
method:
Idols are prohibited.
we translate the phrase
less you make idols..which
God commanded you as meaning
less you make idols which
God commanded you about.
We further interpret this phrase
- As God commanded you -
to indicate all the details
in the prohibition of making
idols such as the prohibition of
making idols whether of physical
objects (sun, moon) or prophetic
objects (like the golden fire calf
resembling the ox of Ezekiel's chariot
vision). Hence we translate
lest you make idols according to
all the details which God
commanded you.
Summary
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Verse / Source
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Text of verse / Source
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Do not make idols
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Dt05-08
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Do not make idols or any picture
- of that which is in heaven above, or
- that which is in the earth beneath, or
- that which is in the waters beneath the earth
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Don't make idols as God commanded
you [not to do]
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Dt04-23b
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Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you,
and you make an idol, any picture which the Lord your God has commanded you.
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Resolution:
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Broad-literal
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Idols are prohibited.
we translate the phrase
less you make idols..which
God commanded you as meaning
less you make idols which
God commanded you about.
We further interpret this phrase
- As God commanded you -
to indicate all the details
in the prohibition of making
idols such as the prohibition of
making idols whether of physical
objects (sun, moon) or prophetic
objects (like the golden fire calf
resembling the ox of Ezekiel's chariot
vision). Hence we translate
lest you make idols according to
all the details which God
commanded you.
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