Exodus 20
1 God spoke all the following words:
And God spoke all these words, saying,
2 “I am the Lord your God, who led you out of Egypt, out of the land of your slavery.
I [am] the LORD thy God, who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 You must not have any other gods except me.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 You must not make for yourself any kind of idol, whether in the form of anything in the heavens above, or on the earth beneath, or in the waters below.
Thou shalt not make to thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth:
5 You must not bow down before them or worship them; for I am the Lord your God and I am passionately exclusive. I lay the consequences of the sin of those who hate me on their sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons;
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;
6 but I show trustworthy love to the thousands of generations who love me and keep my commandments.
And showing mercy to thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7 You must not use the name of the Lord your God in a wrong way, for the Lord will not forgive anyone who uses his name in a wrong way.
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
8 Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
Remember the sabbath-day to keep it holy.
9 You have six days to work and earn your living,
Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:
10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath to honor the Lord your God. On this day you must not do any work—not you, not your son or daughter, not your male slave or female slave or livestock, and not the foreigner who is staying with you.
But the seventh day [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates:
11 For the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything in them in six days, and then rested on the seventh day. That's why the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that [is] in them, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath-day, and hallowed it.
12 Honor your father and mother, so that you may live a long time in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Honor thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
13 You must not murder.
Thou shalt not kill.
14 You must not commit adultery.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 You must not steal.
Thou shalt not steal.
16 You must not give false evidence against others.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
17 You must not desire to have anyone else's house. You must not desire to have their wife, or their male slave or female slave, or their ox or donkey, or anything else that belongs to them.”
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbor's.
18 When all the people heard the thunder and the sound of the trumpet, and saw the lightning and the smoke from the mountain, they trembled with fear and stood a long way off.
And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw [it], they removed, and stood afar off.
19 “You speak to us, and we'll listen,” they said to Moses. “But don't let God speak to us, or we'll die.”
And they said to Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
20 Moses told them, “Do not be afraid, for God has only come to test you. He wants you to be in awe of him so that you don't sin.”
And Moses said to the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
21 The people stood a long way off as Moses went over to the thick, dark cloud where God was.
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God [was].
22 The Lord told Moses, “This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘You saw for yourselves that I spoke with you from heaven.
And the LORD said to Moses, Thus thou shalt say to the children of Israel; Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
23 You must not make any idols of silver or gold to worship in addition to me.
Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make to you gods of gold.
24 Make me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep, goats, and cattle. Wherever I decide to be worshiped, I will come to you and bless you.
An altar of earth thou shalt make to me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt-offerings, and thy peace-offerings, thy sheep, and thy oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come to thee, and I will bless thee.
25 Now if you make an altar out of stones for me, you must not build it with cut stones, because if you use a chisel to cut the stone, you make it unholy.
And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou [shalt] lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
26 Also, you must not go up to my altar using steps, so your private parts are not seen.’”
Neither shalt thou go up by steps to my altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
