Exodus Chapter 20, 1-3

(1) And God spoke all these words, saying:

(2) I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.

(3) Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;

Exodus Chapter 20, 1-3

around the neck of a slave,

the other end

fastens itself around your own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)