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Exodus 20:12
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Exodus 20:12
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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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Exodus 20:12
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Exodus 20:12
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Exodus 20:12
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Exodus 20:12
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12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
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Deuteronomy 5:16
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Deuteronomy 5:16
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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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Deuteronomy 5:16
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Deuteronomy 5:16
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Deuteronomy 5:16
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Deuteronomy 5:16
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16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
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Exodus 20:8
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Exodus 20:8
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8 (A) Remember that the Sabbath Day belongs to me.
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Exodus 20:8
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Exodus 20:8
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8 “Remember the Sabbath(A) day by keeping it holy.
Deuteronomy 5:12
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Deuteronomy 5:12
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12 (A) Show respect for the Sabbath Day—it belongs to me.
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Deuteronomy 5:12
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Deuteronomy 5:12
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12 “Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy,(A) as the Lord your God has commanded you.
Deuteronomy 5:12
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Deuteronomy 5:12
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12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.
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Leviticus 26:1
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Leviticus 26:1
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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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Leviticus 26:1
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Leviticus 26:1
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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.
Leviticus 26:1
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Leviticus 26:1
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26 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God.
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Exodus 20:23
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Exodus 20:23
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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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- 20.23 in place of me: Or “together with me.”
Exodus 20:23
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Exodus 20:23
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23 Do not make any gods to be alongside me;(A) do not make for yourselves gods of silver or gods of gold.(B)
Exodus 20:23
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Exodus 20:23
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23 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
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Deuteronomy 17:2-7
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Deuteronomy 17:2-7
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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. 4 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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- 17.2,3 sun, moon, or stars: Some people thought these were gods and worshiped them.
Deuteronomy 17:2-7
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Deuteronomy 17:2-7
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2 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) 3 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) 4 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) 5 take the man or woman who has done this evil deed to your city gate and stone that person to death.(H) 6 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) 7 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.
Deuteronomy 17:2-7
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Deuteronomy 17:2-7
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2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.
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