Exodus 20:1–11

The Ten Commandments

¹Then God spoke all these words, saying,

²“^aI am the Lord your God, ^bwho brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of ¹slavery.

³“^aYou shall have no other ^bgods ¹before Me.

⁴“^aYou shall not make for yourself ¹an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.

⁵“^aYou shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a ^bjealous God, ^cvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,

⁶but showing lovingkindness to ^athousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

⁷“^aYou shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not ¹leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.

⁸“Remember ^athe sabbath day, to keep it holy.

⁹“^aSix days you shall labor and do all your work,

¹⁰but the seventh day is a sabbath of the Lord your God; in it ^ayou shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who ¹stays with you.

¹¹“^aFor in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.