17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
17 "Do not make any idols.
17 "You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.
17 "Don't make molten gods for yourselves.
17 You shall make no molded gods for yourselves.
17 You must not make any gods of molten metal for yourselves.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 34:17
Commentary on Exodus 34:10-17
(Read Exodus 34:10-17)
The Israelites are commanded to destroy every monument of idolatry, however curious or costly; to refuse all alliance, friendship, or marriage with idolaters, and all idolatrous feasts; and they were reminded not with idolaters, and all idolatrous feats; and they were reminded not to repeat the crime of making molten images. Jealously is called the rage of a man, Proverbs 6:34; but in God it is holy and just displeasure. Those cannot worship God aright, who do not worship him only.