The second commandment reads “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,”

The first sentence seems clear that it’s about making images of things but in English grammar, the sentence and idea ends there. The next sentence goes on to describe how you can’t worship these idols, but the sentence before seems holds true as an independent statement.

From a grammar perspective, is there something in the original text to indicate that the first instruction is not in and of itself forbidden?