Holy Scripture
Exodus 20:3
A church father on this verse
“God commands us by His prophet not to esteem any new God to be God, and not to worship any strange God. Now it is clear that that is called new which is not from everlasting, and on the contrary, that is called everlasting which is not new. He, then, who does not believe that the Only-begotten God is from everlasting…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
3Thou shalt have no other gods beside me.
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In context
1And the Lord spoke all these words, saying:
2I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
— Exodus 20:3 —
4Thou shalt not make to thyself an idol, nor likeness of anything, whatever things are in the heaven above, and whatever are in the earth beneath, and whatever are in the waters under the earth.
5Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor serve them; for I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, recompensing the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation to them that hate me,