Exodus 20:3-5
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[3] You shall have no other gods before me. [4] "You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: [5] you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageEgypt was the land where Israel had been enslaved before the Lord delivered them in the exodus. Its mention grounds the prohibition of other gods and images in God’s unique covenant claim over the people he redeemed.
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Exodus 20:3-5 mentions Egypt.
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