Deuteronomy 5:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and fourth generation of those who reject me

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ 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,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah, thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me;

Common English Bible

⁹ Do not bow down to them or worship them because I, the LORD your God, am a passionate God. I punish children for their parents’ sins—even to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ You shall not adore and you shall not worship these things. For I am the Lord your God, a jealous God, repaying the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation to those who hate me,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ Thou shalt not adore them: and thou shalt not serve them. For I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon their children unto the third and fourth generation, to them that hate me:

Deuteronomy 5:9 Cross References

2 Kings 17:35

The Lord had made a covenant with them and commanded them, “You shall not worship other gods or bow yourselves to them or serve them or sacrifice to them,

Exodus 34:14

for you shall worship no other god, because the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Exodus 34:7

keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means clearing the guilty, but visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

Jeremiah 32:18

You show steadfast love to the thousandth generation but repay the guilt of parents into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the Lord of hosts,

Numbers 14:18

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children to the third and the fourth generation.’

Deuteronomy 4:16

so that you do not act corruptly by making an idol for yourselves in the form of any figure: the likeness of male or female,

Deuteronomy 4:24

For the Lord your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

Deuteronomy 6:15

because the Lord your God, who is present with you, is a jealous God. The anger of the Lord your God would be kindled against you and he would destroy you from the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 7:10

and who repays in their own person those who reject him. He does not delay but repays in their own person those who reject him.