Exodus 20:5
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to 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;
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'Thou shalt not bow down thyself to 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.' The 'jealousy' (qanna') of God — a term never used of human jealousy in the Hebrew Bible — expresses the exclusive covenantal claim that makes idolatry a form of covenant infidelity analogous to marital unfaithfulness. The generational consequences ('third and fourth generation') have provoked debate: they describe the sociological reality that sin's consequences propagate through family and culture, not a mechanical fate applied to innocent descendants (Ezekiel 18:20 explicitly rejects the latter interpretation).
Andere Übersetzungen
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, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,
Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, <FI>am<Fi> a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third <FI>generation<Fi> , and on the fourth, of those hating Me,
You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;
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