Exodus 20:1–17

¹‘And God speaketh all these words, saying, ²I am Jehovah thy God, who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants.

³‘Thou hast no other Gods before Me.

⁴‘Thou dost not make to thyself a graven image, 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. ⁵Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, am a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third generation, and on the fourth, of those hating Me, ⁶and doing kindness to thousands, of those loving Me and keeping My commands.

⁷‘Thou dost not take up the name of Jehovah thy God for a vain thing, for Jehovah acquitteth not him who taketh up His name for a vain thing.

⁸‘Remember the Sabbath-day to sanctify it; ⁹six days thou dost labour, and hast done all thy work, ¹⁰and the seventh day is a Sabbath to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not do any work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and thy cattle, and thy sojourner who is within thy gates,— ¹¹for six days hath Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and resteth in the seventh day; therefore hath Jehovah blessed the Sabbath-day, and doth sanctify it.

¹²‘Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

¹³‘Thou dost not murder.

¹⁴‘Thou dost not commit adultery.

¹⁵‘Thou dost not steal.

¹⁶‘Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.

¹⁷‘Thou dost not desire the house of thy neighbour, thou dost not desire the wife of thy neighbour, or his man-servant, or his handmaid, or his ox, or his ass, or anything which is thy neighbour’s.’