Exodus 20

^aAnd ^bGod spake all these words, saying, ^2cI am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ^3dThou shalt have no other gods before me. ⁴Thou shalt not make unto thee any ^egraven 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: ^5fthou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am ^ga jealous God, ^hvisiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; ⁶and ⁱshewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. ^7kThou 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. ^8lRemember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. ^9mSix days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: ¹⁰but 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 manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, ⁿnor thy stranger that is within thy gates: ¹¹for ^oin six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. ^12pHonour thy father and thy mother: ^qthat thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. ^13rThou shalt not kill. ^14sThou shalt not commit adultery. ^15tThou shalt not steal. ^16uThou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. ^17wThou shalt not covet ^xthy neighbour’s house, ^ythou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

¹⁸And ^zall the people saw the thunderings, and the ^alightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain ^bsmoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. ¹⁹And they said unto Moses, ^cSpeak thou with us, and we will hear: but ^dlet not God speak with us, lest we die. ²⁰And Moses said unto the people, ^eFear not: for God is come to ^fprove you, and ^gthat his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not. ²¹And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto ^hthe thick darkness where God was. ²²And the Lord said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you ⁱfrom heaven. ²³Ye shall not make ^kwith me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold. ²⁴An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all ^lplaces where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will ^mbless thee. ²⁵And ⁿif thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of ^ohewn stone: for if thou ^plift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. ²⁶Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

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