5 You must not bow down to them nor be induced to serve them,*+ because I Jehovah your God am a God exacting exclusive devotion,*+ bringing punishment for the error of fathers upon sons,* upon the third generation and upon the fourth generation,* in the case of those who hate me;+

18 ‘Jehovah, slow to anger+ and abundant in loving-kindness,*+ pardoning error and transgression,+ but by no means will he give exemption from punishment,+ bringing punishment for the error of the fathers upon sons, upon the third generation and upon the fourth generation.’+

19 I do take the heavens and the earth as witnesses against YOU today,+ that I have put life and death before you,+ the blessing+ and the malediction;+ and you must choose life in order that you may keep alive,+ you and your offspring,+

2 This is what Jehovah of armies+ has said, ‘I must call to account+ what Amʹa·lek did to Israel when he set himself against him in the way while he was coming up out of Egypt.+