The Ten Commandments

20 ^(A)And ^(B)God spoke all these words, saying,

^2 (C)“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

^3 (D)“You shall have no other gods before^[a] me.

¹⁴ but ^(A)have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

^13 (A)For your gods have become as many as your cities, O Judah, and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to shame, ^(B)altars to make offerings to Baal.

¹⁴ “Therefore ^(C)do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf, ^(D)for I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their trouble.

^5 (A)and have built the high places of Baal ^(B)to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, ^(C)which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind—