The graven image part of the first commandment is conspicuously missing.
“You shall not make for yourself a graven 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; “
And shortly after that God ORDERED the Israelites to create the Bronze serpent to cure them by stareing at it (And destroyed when they worshipped it as a small g god), and didn't God tell them to create the Ark of the covenant
: Exo 25:18 "And you shall make two cherubim of gold, make them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat.
You do know that the Cherubim are angels and were created beings made by God right?
You wrote:
“The graven image part of the first commandment is conspicuously missing.”
Incorrect. First of all, who defines that as part of the first commandment? Not God. He didn’t break them down according to any particular numbering system that is explained anywhere in scripture.
The page I linked to clearly says this:
I am the LORD your God,
who brought you out
of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondage.
You shall have no other gods before me.
You shall not make for yourself a graven 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
upon the children to the third and the fourth
generation of those who hate me,
but showing steadfast love to thousands of those
who love me and keep my commandments.
The Catechetical Formula does not state all of that. It was written so that illiterate people could know the commandments in an easy-to-memorize way. Any Christian who knew the first commandment according to that way knew not to worship man-made images. Period.