Exodus 20:5
Thou shalt not tishtacheveh to them, nor serve them; for I Hashem Eloheicha am an El kanna, visiting the avon Avot upon the Banim unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me;
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
6But showing chesed unto thousands of them that love Me, and are shomer over My mitzvot.
Cross References
Exodus 34:6And Hashem passed by before him, and proclaimed, Hashem, Hashem El Rachum v'Channun, slow to anger, and abundant in chesed and emes,
Exodus 34:14For thou shalt worship no el acher; for Hashem, Whose Shem is Jealous, is El Kanah;
Leviticus 26:1Ye shall not make for you elilim or pesel or set up matzevah, neither shall ye set up even maskit (carved stone) in your land, lehishtachavot (to bow down) unto it: for I am Hashem Eloheichem.
Leviticus 26:39And they that are left of you shall waste away in their avon in your enemiesʼ lands; and also in the iniquities of their avot shall they waste away with them.
Numbers 14:33And your banim shall wander + 14:33 wandering ro'im in the midbar arba'im shanah, and bear + 14:33 the penalty of your whoredoms, + 14:33 zenut, spiritual disloyalty and rebellion until the last of your corpses lies in the midbar.
Deuteronomy 4:24For Hashem Eloheicha is a consuming eish, even an El Kannah.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 20:2-12
The Ten Commandments. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And God spake all these words, saying, 2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the… Read the whole commentary →