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12 (A) Respect your father and your mother, and you will live a long time in the land I am giving you.

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12 “Honor your father and your mother,(A) so that you may live long(B) in the land(C) the Lord your God is giving you.

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16 (A) Respect your father and mother, and you will live a long and successful life in the land I am giving you.

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16 “Honor your father(A) and your mother,(B) as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live long(C) and that it may go well with you in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

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(A) Remember that the Sabbath Day belongs to me.

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“Remember the Sabbath(A) day by keeping it holy.

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12 (A) Show respect for the Sabbath Day—it belongs to me.

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12 “Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy,(A) as the Lord your God has commanded you.

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Blessings for Obeying the Lord

The Lord said:

26 (A) I am the Lord your God! So don't make or worship idols or images.

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Reward for Obedience

26 “‘Do not make idols(A) or set up an image(B) or a sacred stone(C) for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone(D) in your land to bow down before it. I am the Lord your God.

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23 So you must never make idols of silver or gold to worship in place of me.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 20.23 in place of me: Or “together with me.”

23 Do not make any gods to be alongside me;(A) do not make for yourselves gods of silver or gods of gold.(B)

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17 (A) Don't make metal images of gods.

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17 “Do not make any idols.(A)

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Put To Death People Who Worship Idols

Moses said to Israel:

2-3 (A) The Lord your God is giving you towns to live in. But later, a man or a woman in your town may start worshiping other gods, or even the sun, moon, or stars.[a] I have warned you not to worship other gods, because whoever worships them is disobeying the Lord and breaking the agreement he made with you. So when you hear that someone in your town is committing this disgusting sin, you must carefully find out if that person really is guilty. 5-7 (B) But you will need two or three witnesses—one witness isn't enough to prove a person guilty.

Get rid of those who are guilty of such evil. Take them outside your town gates and everyone must stone them to death. But the witnesses must be the first to throw stones.

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Footnotes

  1. 17.2,3 sun, moon, or stars: Some people thought these were gods and worshiped them.

If a man or woman living among you in one of the towns the Lord gives you is found doing evil in the eyes of the Lord your God in violation of his covenant,(A) and contrary to my command(B) has worshiped other gods,(C) bowing down to them or to the sun(D) or the moon or the stars in the sky,(E) and this has been brought to your attention, then you must investigate it thoroughly. If it is true(F) and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done in Israel,(G) take the man or woman who has done this evil deed to your city gate and stone that person to death.(H) On the testimony of two or three witnesses a person is to be put to death, but no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.(I) The hands of the witnesses must be the first in putting that person to death,(J) and then the hands of all the people.(K) You must purge the evil(L) from among you.

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