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Deuteronomy 5:9

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Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,

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The surrounding passage

  1. Deuteronomy 5:7

    Thou shalt have none other gods before me.

  2. Deuteronomy 5:8

    Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:

  3. Deuteronomy 5:10

    And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

  4. Deuteronomy 5:11

    Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.