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Then Moshe called to all Isra'el and said to them, "Listen, Isra'el, to the laws and rulings which I am announcing in your hearing today, so that you will learn them and take care to obey them.
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ADONAI our God made a covenant with us at Horev.
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ADONAI did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us -with us, who are all of us here alive today.
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ADONAI spoke with you face to face from the fire on the mountain.
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At that time I stood between ADONAI and you in order to tell you what ADONAI was saying; because, on account of the fire, you were afraid and wouldn't go up onto the mountain. He said, t
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"'I am ADONAI your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, where you lived as slaves. c
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"'You are to have no other gods before me.
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You are not to make for yourselves a carved image or any kind of representation of anything in heaven above, on the earth beneath or in the water below the shoreline -
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you are not to bow down to them or serve them; for I, ADONAI your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sins of the parents, also the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
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but displaying grace to the thousandth generation of those who love me and obey my mitzvot.
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"'You are not to misuse the name of ADONAI your God, because ADONAI will not leave unpunished someone who misuses his name.