Exodus 20:5
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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 frames the command against idolatry: the God who redeemed Israel from Egypt alone deserves their covenant loyalty and worship.
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Exodus 20:5 mentions Egypt.
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