Exodus 20
1 And the Lord spoke all these words:
And God speaks all these words, saying,
2 “I am the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of Egypt, out of the house of servitude.
“I [am] your God YHWH, who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants.
3 You shall not have strange gods before me.
You have no other Gods before Me.
4 You shall not make for yourself a graven image, nor a likeness of anything that is in heaven above or on earth below, nor of those things which are in the waters under the earth.
You do not make a carved image for yourself, or any likeness which [is] in the heavens above, or which [is] in the earth beneath, or which [is] in the waters under the earth.
5 You shall not adore them, nor shall you worship them. I am the Lord your God: strong, zealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the sons to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
You do not bow yourself to them, nor serve them: for I, your God YHWH, [am] a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on a third and on a fourth [generation] of those hating Me,
6 and showing mercy to thousands of those who love me and keep my precepts.
and doing kindness to thousands, of those loving Me and keeping My commands.
7 You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain. For the Lord will not hold harmless one who takes the name of the Lord his God falsely.
You do not take up the Name of your God YHWH for a vain thing, for YHWH does not acquit him who takes up His Name for a vain thing.
8 Remember that you are to sanctify the day of the Sabbath.
Remember the Sabbath day to sanctify it;
9 For six days, you will work and accomplish all your tasks.
six days you labor and have done all your work,
10 But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. You shall not do any work in it: you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, your beast and the newcomer who is within your gates.
and the seventh day [is] a Sabbath to your God YHWH; you do not do any work, you, and your son, and your daughter, your manservant, and your handmaid, and your livestock, and your sojourner who is within your gates—
11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all the things that are in them, and so he rested on the seventh day. For this reason, the Lord has blessed the day of the Sabbath and sanctified it.
for [in] six days YHWH has made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that [is] in them, and rests in the seventh day; therefore YHWH has blessed the Sabbath day and sanctifies it.
12 Honor your father and your mother, so that you may have a long life upon the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.
Honor your father and your mother, so that your days are prolonged on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you.
13 You shall not murder.
You do not murder.
14 You shall not commit adultery.
You do not commit adultery.
15 You shall not steal.
You do not steal.
16 You shall not speak false testimony against your neighbor.
You do not answer [with] a false testimony against your neighbor.
17 You shall not covet the house of your neighbor; neither shall you desire his wife, nor male servant, nor female servant, nor ox, nor donkey, nor anything that is his.”
You do not desire the house of your neighbor, you do not desire the wife of your neighbor, or his manservant, or his handmaid, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything which [is] your neighbor’s.”
18 Then all the people considered the voices, and the lights, and the sound of the trumpet, and the smoking mountain. And being terrified and struck with fear, they stood at a distance,
And all the people are seeing the voices, and the flames, and the sound of the horn, and the mountain smoking; and the people see, and move, and stand far off,
19 saying to Moses: “Speak to us, and we will listen. Let not the Lord speak to us, lest perhaps we may die.”
and say to Moses, “Speak with us, and we hear, and do not let God speak with us, lest we die.”
20 And Moses said to the people: “Do not be afraid. For God came in order to test you, and so that the dread of him might be with you, and you would not sin.”
And Moses says to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to try you, and in order that His fear may be before your faces—that you do not sin.”
21 And the people stood far away. But Moses approached toward the mist, in which was God.
And the people stand far off, and Moses has drawn near to the thick darkness where God [is].
22 Thereafter, the Lord said to Moses: “This you shall say to the sons of Israel: You have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.
And YHWH says to Moses, “Thus you say to the sons of Israel: You have seen that I have spoken with you from the heavens;
23 You shall not make gods of silver, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.
you do not make gods of silver and gods of gold [to be] with Me—you do not make [any idol] for yourselves.
24 You shall make an altar from the earth for me, and you shall offer upon it your holocausts and peace-offerings, your sheep and oxen, in every place where the memory of my name shall be. I will come to you, and I will bless you.
You make an altar of earth for Me, and you have sacrificed on it your burnt-offerings and your peace-offerings, your flock and your herd; in every place where I cause My Name to be remembered I come to you, and have blessed you.
25 And if you make an altar of stone for me, you shall not build it from cut stones; for if you lift up a tool over it, it will be defiled.
And if you make an altar of stones for Me, you do not build them of hewn work; when you have waved your tool over it, then you defile it;
26 You shall not ascend by steps to my altar, lest your nakedness be revealed.”
neither do you go up by steps on My altar, that your nakedness is not revealed on it.
