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You need to read EX 20:5 ( the following verse)
"You shall not worship them or serve them"
No Graven Image: Icons and Their Proper Use | Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese
The command in question is from the Ten Commandments: “You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth be*neath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God” (Exodus 20:3-5).
Note that the context shows that the term “graven image” is used to refer to an idol—an image created to be worshiped as a god. Could this mean there are in the Bible two classifications of image—true images and false images? Appropriate images and in*appropriate images? If so, how do we distin*guish between them?
Are you having trouble reading those verses? They are very clear that graven images are neither to be made nor worshiped. Or does the Bible support the freedom of expression to make any image you want?