5) Must guard the people from idolatry & false worship • The law: Must not allow anything to be set up beside God’s altar • The reason: God hates it 21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee. 22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth. CHAPTER 17 6) Must guard the people from greed • The law: Not to keep the best & give God the least (defective) • The reason: God hates it Thou shalt not
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