teaching particular distinctions between right and wrong and in many cases by indicating consequences of decisions regarding them. The Decalogue commandment concerning idolatry is an especially powerful case in point because its formulation is a microcosm of Moses’s appeal in Deut. 30. Not only does it define right and wrong by forbidding idolatry (Exod. 20:4–5a), but it also supplies motivation by contrasting the results of disobedience with those of obedience: “for I the LORD your God am a jealous