So, we really didn't miss it, as we get it.
Just to verify,
To you, by "any likeness", one imagines all of the Visual Arts are a sin against the Commandment on Graven images and likeness, in your interpretation.
Renaissance paintings, the whole shebang.
All Video Games, Architectural Plans, Astronomy Photography., Television depicting ocean creatures in their natural habitat, Printed Poster Advertisements, Microbiology images of Phytoplankton, and Zooplankton, and for that matter Memes.
Repent!
Somebody better go tell the Science of Taxonomy within Botany and Zoology, and alert the Secular Humanists.
There's still time!
You are free to think that interpretation, and practice it in the USA.
We are also free to not concur with your human interpretation, yet be happy for you that you have one.
Just maybe the problem exemplified in Exodus, lies in going beyond appreciating the likeness of images for their occasionally accurate reflection of God, going beyond appreciating them, to the act of worshiping these images themselves, rather than giving to God what is His?
Just a thought.