Exodus 20:4
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4 (A) Do not make idols that look like anything in the sky or on earth or in the ocean under the earth.
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Exodus 34:17
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17 (A) Don't make metal images of gods.
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Leviticus 19:3-4
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3-4 (A) Respect your father and your mother, honor the Sabbath, and don't make idols or images. I am the Lord your God.
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Leviticus 19:4
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3-4 (A) Respect your father and your mother, honor the Sabbath, and don't make idols or images. I am the Lord your God.
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Leviticus 26:1
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Blessings for Obeying the Lord
The Lord said:
26 (A) I am the Lord your God! So don't make or worship idols or images.
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Deuteronomy 4:15-18
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Don't Worship Idols
Moses said to Israel:
15 When God spoke to you from the fire, he was invisible. So be careful 16 (A) not to commit the sin of worshiping idols. Don't make idols to be worshiped, whether they are shaped like men, women, 17 (B) animals, birds, 18 reptiles, or fish.
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Deuteronomy 5:8
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8 (A) Do not make idols that look like anything in the sky or on earth or in the ocean under the earth.
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Exodus 20:12
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12 (A) Respect your father and your mother, and you will live a long time in the land I am giving you.
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Deuteronomy 5:16
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16 (A) Respect your father and mother, and you will live a long and successful life in the land I am giving you.
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Deuteronomy 19:14
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Property Lines
Moses said to Israel:
14 (A) In the land the Lord is giving you, there are already stones set up to mark the property lines between fields. So don't move those stones.
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Leviticus 19:14
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14 (A) I am the Lord your God, and I command you not to make fun of the deaf or to cause a blind person to stumble.
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Exodus 22:21
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21 (A) Do not mistreat or abuse foreigners who live among you. Remember, you were foreigners in Egypt.
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Exodus 23:9
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9 (A) Don't mistreat foreigners. You were foreigners in Egypt, and you know what it is like.
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Leviticus 19:33
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33 (A) Don't mistreat any foreigners who live in your land.
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Leviticus 19:34
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34 Instead, treat them as well as you treat your own people and love them as much as you love yourself. Remember, you were once foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.
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Deuteronomy 24:17
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Don't Mistreat the Powerless
Moses said to Israel:
17 (A) Make sure that orphans and foreigners are treated fairly. And if you lend money to a widow and want to keep something of hers to guarantee that she will pay you back, don't take any of her clothes.
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Deuteronomy 24:18
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18 You were slaves in Egypt until the Lord your God rescued you. That's why I am giving you these laws.
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Leviticus 18:8
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8 (A) And don't disgrace him by having sex with any of his other wives.
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Leviticus 20:11
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11 (A) Having sex with one of your father's wives disgraces him. So both you and the woman will be put to death, just as you deserve.
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Deuteronomy 22:30
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30 (A) A man must not marry a woman who was married to his father. This would be a disgrace to his father.
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Exodus 22:19
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19 (A) Death is the punishment for having sex with an animal.
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Leviticus 18:23
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23 (A) Anyone who has sex with an animal is unclean.
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Leviticus 20:15-16
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15-16 (A) If any of you have sex with an animal, both you and the animal will be put to death, just as you deserve.
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Leviticus 20:16
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15-16 (A) If any of you have sex with an animal, both you and the animal will be put to death, just as you deserve.
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Leviticus 18:9
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9 (A) Don't have sex with your sister or stepsister, whether you grew up together or not.
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