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Do not make for yourself a graven image[a], or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or on the earth below or in the water under the earth. Do not bow down to them, do not let anyone make you serve them. For I, Adonai your God, am a jealous God, bringing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing lovingkindness to the thousands of generations of those who love Me and keep My mitzvot.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 20:4 Heb. Pe-sel, lit. “crafted idol”.

“You shall not make for yourself an image(A) in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship(B) them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God,(C) punishing the children for the sin of the parents(D) to the third and fourth generation(E) of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand(F) generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

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