5 ^eYou shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am ^fa jealous God, ^gvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, ^x“All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”