Exodus 20:2-6
English Standard Version
2 (A)“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
3 (B)“You shall have no other gods before[a] me.
4 (C)“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. 5 (D)You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am (E)a jealous God, (F)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands[b] of those who love me and keep my commandments.
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- Exodus 20:3 Or besides
- Exodus 20:6 Or to the thousandth generation
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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