September 25, 2016

⁴ “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 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 on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, ⁶ but showing steadfast love to thousands^[a] of those who love me and keep my commandments.

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Footnotes

Exodus 20:6 Or to the thousandth generation

Cross references

Exodus 20:4 : Lev. 26:1; Deut. 27:15; Ps. 97:7; [Acts 17:29] Exodus 20:5 : ch. 23:24; Josh. 23:7 Exodus 20:5 : ch. 34:14; Deut. 4:24; 6:15; Josh. 24:19; Nah. 1:2 Exodus 20:5 : ch. 34:7; Num. 14:18; [Ps. 79:8; 109:14; Isa. 65:6, 7; Jer. 32:18]

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