Exodus 20
1 And God speaks all these words, saying,
And God said all these words:
2 “I [am] your God YHWH, who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants.
I am the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.
3 You have no other Gods before Me.
You are to have no other gods but me.
4 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.
You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:
5 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,
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;
6 and doing kindness to thousands, of those loving Me and keeping My commands.
And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws.
7 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.
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
8 Remember the Sabbath day to sanctify it;
Keep in memory the Sabbath and let it be a holy day.
9 six days you labor and have done all your work,
On six days do all your work:
10 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—
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:
11 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.
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.
12 Honor your father and your mother, so that your days are prolonged on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you.
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.
13 You do not murder.
Do not put anyone to death without cause.
14 You do not commit adultery.
Do not be false to the married relation.
15 You do not steal.
Do not take the property of another.
16 You do not answer [with] a false testimony against your neighbor.
Do not give false witness against your neighbour.
17 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.”
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.
18 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,
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.
19 and say to Moses, “Speak with us, and we hear, and do not let God speak with us, lest we die.”
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.
20 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.”
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.
21 And the people stand far off, and Moses has drawn near to the thick darkness where God [is].
And the people kept their places far off, but Moses went near to the dark cloud where God was.
22 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;
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
23 you do not make gods of silver and gods of gold [to be] with Me—you do not make [any idol] for yourselves.
Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for yourselves.
24 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.
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.
25 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;
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.
26 neither do you go up by steps on My altar, that your nakedness is not revealed on it.
And do not go up by steps to my altar, for fear that your bodies may be seen uncovered.
