Deuteronomy 5:9

New American Bible - revised edition

you shall not bow down before them or serve them. For I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, bringing punishment for their parents’ wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation,

Cross References

2 Kings 17:35

When the Lord made a covenant with them, he commanded them: You must not venerate other gods, nor bow down to them, nor serve them, nor offer sacrifice to them,

Exodus 34:14

You shall not bow down to any other god, for the Lord—“Jealous” his name—is a jealous God.

Exodus 34:7

continuing his love for a thousand generations, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion, and sin; yet not declaring the guilty guiltless, but bringing punishment for their parents’ wickedness on children and children’s children to the third and fourth generation!

Jeremiah 32:18

You continue your kindness through a thousand generations; but you repay the ancestors’ guilt upon their children who follow them. Great and mighty God, whose name is Lord of hosts,

Numbers 14:18

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in kindness, forgiving iniquity and rebellion; yet certainly not declaring the guilty guiltless, but punishing children to the third and fourth generation for their parents’ iniquity.’

Deuteronomy 4:16

not to act corruptly by fashioning an idol for yourselves to represent any figure, whether it be the form of a man or of a woman,

Deuteronomy 4:24

For the Lord, your God, is a consuming fire, a jealous God. God’s Fidelity and Love.

Deuteronomy 6:15

for the Lord, your God who is in your midst, is a passionate God—lest the anger of the Lord, your God, flare up against you and he destroy you from upon the land.

Deuteronomy 7:10

but who repays with destruction those who hate him; he does not delay with those who hate him, but makes them pay for it.