For example, Jehovah said to Israel: “You must not make valueless gods for yourselves, and you must not set up a carved image or a sacred pillar for yourselves, and you must not put a stone as a showpiece in your land in order to bow down toward it. ”
पण, मनोरंजनापेक्षा जास्त हानीकारक ठरू शकतील अशा निरर्थक अथवा निरुपयोगी गोष्टींचाही बायबलमध्ये उल्लेख आढळतो.