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The decrees, laws, and rules of God in Book of Deuteronomy



You shall have no other gods beside Me.

You shall not make for yourself a sculptured image, any likeness of what is in the heavens above, or on the earth below, or in the waters below the earth.

You shall not bow down to them or serve them. For I your God LORD am an impassioned God, visiting the guilt of the parents upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generations of those who reject Me,

but showing kindness to the thousandth generation of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

You shall not swear falsely by the name of your God LORD; for LORD will not clear one who swears falsely by God’s name.

Observe the sabbath day and keep it holy, as your God LORD has commanded you.

Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

but the seventh day is a sabbath of your God LORD; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your ox or your ass, or any of your cattle, or the stranger in your settlements, so that your male and female slave may rest as you do.

Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and your God LORD freed you from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore your God LORD has commanded you to observe the sabbath day.

Honor your father and your mother, as your God LORD has commanded you, that you may long endure, and that you may fare well, in the land that your God LORD is assigning to you.

You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

You [men] shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Likewise, none of you shall crave your neighbor’s house, or field, or male or female slave, or ox, or ass, or anything that is your neighbor’s.

In the chapter IV of Book of Deuteronomy, Mose said the following,
When you have begotten children and children’s children and are long established in the land, should you act wickedly and make for yourselves a sculptured image in any likeness, causing your God LORD displeasure and vexation, 
I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you that you shall soon perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess; you shall not long endure in it, but shall be utterly wiped out. 
LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a scant few of you shall be left among the nations to which LORD will drive you.
There you will serve gods of wood and stone, made by human hands, that cannot see or hear or eat or smell. 
But if you search there, you will find your God LORD, if only you seek with all your heart and soul— 
when you are in distress because all these things have befallen you and, in the end, return to and obey your God LORD. 
For your God LORD is a compassionate God, who will not fail you nor let you perish; [God] will not forget the covenant made on oath with your fathers.

According to custom of some Chinese in terms of method of worshipping gods or ancestors and partly following decrees, laws, and rules of God LORD, it was sensed that they might have been part of Israelites before, and afterwards they served gods of wood and stone, such as Leshan Giant Buddha, causing God LORD displeasure. Some Chinese choose to worship their ancestors, perhaps because their ancestors were the Israelites who had a covenant made on oath with God LORD, and they may therefore believe that they can receive God's blessing through ancestor worship. So the solution to their misery may be that they should start to search God LORD with all their heart and soul and return to and obey God LORD like all other Jewish. 

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