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And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your hearing today, that you may learn them and be careful to observe them.
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The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
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The Lord did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, those who are here today, all of us who are alive.
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The Lord talked with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire.
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I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the Lord; for you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up the mountain. He said:
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'I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
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'You shall have no other gods before Me.
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'You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;
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you shall not bow down to them nor 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,