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Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me,

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Tu ne te prosterneras point devant elles, et tu ne les serviras point; car moi, l'Eternel, ton Dieu, je suis un Dieu jaloux, qui punis l'iniquité des pères sur les enfants jusqu'à la troisième et à la quatrième génération de ceux qui me haïssent,

KJV

Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me,

Patristic reading

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  • Agobard of Lyon

    Book on the Images of Saints

    or in the water under the earth." And He concluded: "You shall not bow down to them or worship them" Deuteronomy 5:8-9. These words clearly state that those likenesses, which impious men make for the veneration of foreign gods and which wandering paganism has discovered for worsh…
  • Agobard of Lyon

    Book on the Images of Saints

    th beneath, or that is in the waters under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them" (Deuteronomy 5:8-9). These words clearly declare that the forbidden likenesses are those usually made for the worship of foreign gods, which erring pagans use for worship and adora…
  • Bonaventura

    operaomnia vol3

    alcm fcli- cilatem perveniendi. Cft\ Aristot., I. Eihic. c. 12 seq. a Exod. 34, 14; Deuter. 5, 9. — Alaior , in qua pro lm- bet eue cod. Im subatituit se habel, convenit cum illo AristoL, II. Bthlc. c I : Lcgum latores cnim civcs assue…

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