For example, Jehovah said to Israel: “You must not make valueless gods for yourselves, and you must not set up a carved image or a sacred pillar for yourselves, and you must not put a stone as a showpiece in your land in order to bow down toward it. ”
दिलचस्पी की बात है कि बाइबल के मूल इब्रानी पाठ में, शब्द “निरर्थक ” या ‘ निकम्मा ’ ज़्यादातर झूठे देवताओं के लिए इस्तेमाल किया गया है ।