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Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

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Exodus 20:5 has 53 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 53 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Deuteronomy 5:9 (39 votes) and Numbers 14:18 (34 votes). 96 other verses point back to it. It links with 31 other books, from Genesis 21 to James 4.

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Which verses does Exodus 20:5 point to?

The 20 strongest of 53, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

  2. ‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’

  3. For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

  4. Exodus 34:1414 votes

    For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

  5. For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth.

  6. Joshua 24:1912 votes

    But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD, for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.

  7. Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness, maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”

  8. Joshua 23:711 votes

    So you are not to associate with these nations that remain among you. You must not call on the names of their gods or swear by them, and you must not serve them or bow down to them.

  9. Psalm 109:1411 votes

    May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

  10. Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps, both for your iniquities and for those of your fathers,” says the LORD. “Because they burned incense on the mountains and scorned Me on the hills, I will measure into their laps full payment for their former deeds.”

  11. Nahum 1:211 votes
  12. Psalm 79:88 votes

Which verses point to Exodus 20:5?

The 10 strongest of 96.