Deuteronomy 5:1-9 ▼

1 Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the judgments which I am speaking today in your hearing, that you may learn them and be careful to do them.

2 Yahweh our God cut a covenant with us at Horeb.

3 Yahweh did not cut this covenant with our fathers, but with us, with all those of us alive here today.

4 Yahweh spoke to you face to face at the mountain from the midst of the fire.

5 I was standing between Yahweh and you at that time, to declare to you the word of Yahweh; for you were afraid because of the fire and did not go up the mountain. He said,

6 ‘I am Yahweh your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

7 ‘You shall have no other gods before Me.

8 ‘You shall not make for yourself an idol—any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.

9 You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,