Exodus 20:1–11

The Ten Commandments

20And God spoke ^aall these words, saying:

^2b“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, ^cout of the house of ¹bondage.

^3d“You shall have no other gods before Me.

^4e“You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; ^5fyou shall not bow down to them nor ²serve them. ^gFor I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, ^hvisiting ³the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, ⁶but ⁱshowing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

^7j“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord ^kwill not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

^8l“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. ^9mSix days you shall labor and do all your work, ¹⁰but the ⁿseventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, ^onor your stranger who is within your gates. ¹¹For ^pin six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.