Exodus 20
1 And God said all these words:
Then God spake all these wordes, saying,
2 I am the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.
I am the Lord thy God, which haue brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 You are to have no other gods but me.
Thou shalt haue none other Gods before me.
4 You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:
Thou shalt make thee no grauen image, neither any similitude of things that are in heauen aboue, neither that are in the earth beneath, nor that are in the waters vnder the earth.
5 You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;
Thou shalt not bowe downe to them, neither serue them: for I am the Lord thy God, a ielous God, visiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children, vpon the third generation and vpon the fourth of them that hate me:
6 And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws.
And shewing mercie vnto thousandes to them that loue me, and keepe my commandemets.
7 You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord
Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vaine: for the Lord will not hold him guiltles that taketh his Name in vayne.
8 Keep in memory the Sabbath and let it be a holy day.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keepe it holy.
9 On six days do all your work:
Sixe dayes shalt thou labour, and doe all thy worke,
10 But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living among you:
But the seuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any worke, thou, nor thy sonne, nor thy daughter, thy man seruant, nor thy mayde, nor thy beast, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.
11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and everything in them, and he took his rest on the seventh day: for this reason the Lord has given his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy.
For in sixe dayes the Lord made the heauen and the earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seuenth day: therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
12 Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy dayes may be prolonged vpon the land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee.
13 Do not put anyone to death without cause.
Thou shalt not kill.
14 Do not be false to the married relation.
Thou shalt not commit adulterie.
15 Do not take the property of another.
Thou shalt not steale.
16 Do not give false witness against your neighbour.
Thou shalt not beare false witnes against thy neighbour.
17 Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his.
Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours house, neither shalt thou couet thy neighbours wife, nor his man seruant, nor his mayde, nor his oxe, nor his asse, neyther any thing that is thy neighbours.
18 And all the people were watching the thunderings and the flames and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when they saw it, they kept far off, shaking with fear.
And all the people sawe the thunders, and the lightnings, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mountaine smoking and when the people saw it they fled and stoode afare off,
19 And they said to Moses, To your words we will give ear, but let not the voice of God come to our ears, for fear death may come on us.
And sayde vnto Moses, Talke thou with vs, and we will heare: but let not God talke with vs, lest we die.
20 And Moses said to the people, Have no fear: for God has come to put you to the test, so that fearing him you may be kept from sin.
Then Moses sayde vnto the people, Feare not: for God is come to proue you, and that his feare may be before you, that ye sinne not.
21 And the people kept their places far off, but Moses went near to the dark cloud where God was.
So the people stoode afarre off, but Moses drew neere vnto the darkenes where God was.
22 And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You yourselves have seen that my voice has come to you from heaven
And the Lord sayde vnto Moses, Thus thou shalt say vnto the children of Israel, Ye haue seene that I haue talked with you from heauen.
23 Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for yourselves.
Ye shall not make therefore with me gods of siluer, nor gods of golde: you shall make you none.
24 Make for me an altar of earth, offering on it your burned offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen: in every place where I have put the memory of my name, I will come to you and give you my blessing.
An altar of earth thou shalt make vnto me, and thereon shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheepe, and thine oxen: in all places, where I shall put the remembrance of my Name, I will come vnto thee, and blesse thee.
25 And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean.
But if thou wilt make mee an altar of stone, thou shalt not buylde it of hewen stones: for if thou lift vp thy toole vpon them, thou hast polluted them.
26 And do not go up by steps to my altar, for fear that your bodies may be seen uncovered.
Neither shalt thou goe vp by steppes vnto mine altar, that thy filthines be not discouered thereon.
