^26:1“ ‘You must not make for yourselves idols,¹ so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before² it, for I am the Lord your God.

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Footnotes

103 Heb “because to me the sons of Israel are servants.”
1 For the literature regarding the difficult etymology and meaning of the term for “idols” (אֱלִילִם, ’elilim), see the literature cited in the note on . It appears to be a diminutive play on words with אֵל (’el, “god, God”) and, perhaps at the same time, recalls a common Semitic word for “worthless, weak, powerless, nothingness.” Snaith suggests a rendering of “worthless godlings.”
2 Heb “on.” The “sculpted stone” appears to be some sort of stone with images carved into (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [], , and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [], ).