Chapter 20
1 Then God delivered
all these commandments: 2 "I, the LORD, am
your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.
3 You shall not have
other gods besides me.
4 You shall not
carve idols for yourselves in the shape of anything in the sky above or on the
earth below or in the waters beneath the earth; 5 you
shall not bow down before them or worship them. For I, the LORD, your God, am a
jealous God, inflicting punishment for their fathers' wickedness on the
children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation; 6 but bestowing mercy down to the thousandth
generation, on the children of those who love me and keep my commandments.
7 "You shall not take the name of the LORD, your
God, in vain. For the LORD will not leave unpunished him who takes his name in
vain.
8 "Remember to keep holy the sabbath day. 9 Six days you may labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD,
your God. No work may be done then either by you, or your son or daughter, or
your male or female slave, or your beast, or by the alien who lives with you. 11 In six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth,
the sea and all that is in them; but on the seventh day he rested. That is why
the LORD has blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.
12 "Honor your father and your mother, that you
may have a long life in the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you.
13 "You shall not kill.
14 "You shall not commit adultery.
15 "You shall not steal.
16 "You shall not bear false witness against your
neighbor.
17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house.
You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male or female slave, nor his
ox or ass, nor anything else that belongs to him."
18 When the people witnessed the thunder and
lightning, the trumpet blast and the mountain smoking, they all feared and
trembled. So they took up a position much farther away 19
and said to Moses, "You speak to us, and we will listen; but let
not God speak to us, or we shall die." 20 Moses
answered the people, "Do not be afraid, for God has come to you only to
test you and put his fear upon you, lest you should sin." 21 Still the people remained at a distance, while
Moses approached the cloud where God was.
22 The LORD told Moses, "Thus shall you speak to
the Israelites: You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from
heaven. 23 Do not make anything to rank with me;
neither gods of silver nor gods of gold shall you make for yourselves.
24 "An altar of earth you shall make for me, and
upon it you shall sacrifice your holocausts and peace offerings, your sheep and
your oxen. In whatever place I choose for the remembrance of my name I will
come to you and bless you. 25 If you make an
altar of stone for me, do not build it of cut stone, for by putting a tool to
it you desecrate it. 26 You shall not go up by
steps to my altar, on which you must not be indecently uncovered.
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