Questions and Answers

Is the making of images forbidden or commanded?

Exodus 20:4 states than one should not make idols and bow down and worship them. The cherubims in Exodus 25 are not idols, nor were they worshipped.

• Exodus 25:18-20 - Make two cherubim out of hammered gold

• Exodus 20:4 - You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything