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Idols frequently took the form as a representation of a man or women. Or the golden calf. It also prohibits "any symbol". Under your interpretation that would make every Christian church with a cross wrong in their interpretation of the bible that permits such symbols.
Your faith's interpretation of the ancient text has a bit of a problem as it is contradicted by reality - reality based upon archaeological finds
Why Jews Don’t Worship Statues of God
The contradictory concept that God has “no form” (for example in Deut. 4:12) and is an invisible, ubiquitous presence is most probably a later addition to the biblical text, meant to enforce a theological and conceptual about-face, experts posit.
But originally, when they thought of their god, the ancient Hebrews were clearly very much in step with the religious conceptions of neighboring peoples, explains Professor Tallay Ornan, a Hebrew University expert on Near East religious imagery. “Throughout the region, gods were believed to have human shape, with the main difference being that they were immortal and larger than humans,” Ornan says.
In fact, many scholars believe it is likely that in the holy of holies of the First Temple there was an anthropomorphic statue of Yahweh seated on his throne, she notes. There are clues to this in the Bible, in accounts of people worshipping in the Temple, such as the prophet Isaiah, who “saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train [of his robe] filled the Temple.” (Isaiah 6:1)