Jon Collins

And at the center are three lines describing what idols might represent in the skies above, the land beneath, the waters under the land.

It's what you call a symmetry or a chiasm.

Yeah.

So part of the...

The reasoning for no other Elohim and no idols both comes at the beginning and the end.

I'm Yahweh your Elohim who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

No other Elohim did that.

But then also, Yahweh your Elohim is passionate, kana.

And there are multi-generational consequences for giving your allegiance to an Elohim other than Yahweh.

What I want to do is actually put the discussion of the passion of God

After we talk about idolatry a little more.

Okay.

But no other Elohim and no idols are closely bound together.

We talked about no other Elohim and what having no other Elohim before me means in the last conversation.

So now we're talking about what?

What is an idol?

What's the significance of idols?

And why is it such a big deal?

I think we should talk about that first.

Might seem self-evident to maybe different ones of us listening or thinking about it for different reasons.