Idolatry
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Idolatry or idol worship is the worship of an idol as though it were a deity. In Abrahamic religions idolatry connotes the worship of something or someone other than the Abrahamic God as if it were Go
Illustration depicting worship of the golden calf idol
A 1768 synagogue parchment with the Ten Commandments by Jekuthiel Sofer. Among other things, it prohibits idolatry.
Moses Indignant at the Golden Calf, painting by William Blake, 1799–1800
Pope Pius V praying with a crucifix, painting by August Kraus
Golden calf
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According to the Torah, the Bible, and the Quran, the golden calf or, in the Quranic account, the calf was a cult image made by the Israelites when Moses went up to Mount Sinai. In Hebrew, the inciden
Idolatry
…into the modern era. Judaism prohibits any form of idolatry even if they are used to worship the one God of Judaism as occurred during the sin of the golden calf. According to the second commandment of the decalogue, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. The worship of foreign gods in any form or through…
The Levites killed about 3,000 Israelites who worshipped the Golden Calf (1984 illustration by Jim Padgett).
Moses destroying the tablets (watercolor c. 1896–1902 by James Tissot)