Deuteronomy 4:16

WEB

Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

KJV

Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

Commentary

Lest ye corrupt yourselves,.... And not themselves only, but the word and worship of God, by idolatry, than which nothing is more corrupting a nd defiling, nor more abominable to God: and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure; a graven image, in the likeness of any figure, an idea of which they had formed in their minds: the likeness of male or female; of a man or a woman; so some of the Heathen deities were in the likeness of men, as Jupiter, Mars, Hercules, Apollo, &c. and others in the likeness of women, as Juno, Diana, Venus, &c. Some think Osiris and Isis, Egyptian deities, the one male, the other female, are respected; but it is not certain that these were worshipped by them so early.