“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Deuteronomy 5:6 in context
Deuteronomy 5:3–9
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The LORD didn’t make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive today.
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The LORD spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the middle of the fire,
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(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to show you the LORD’s word; for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn’t go up onto the mountain) saying,
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“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
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“You shall have no other gods before me.
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“You shall not make a carved image for yourself—any likeness of what is in heaven above, or what is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
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You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me
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