Exodus Chapter 20

Exodus Chapter 20
1 Then God spake all these words,
saying,
2 I am the Lord thy God, which have
brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out
of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have none other Gods
before me.
4 Thou shalt make thee no graven image,
neither any similitude of things that are
in heaven above, neither that are in the
earth beneath, nor that are in the waters
under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down to them,
neither serve them: for I am the Lord thy
God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity
of the fathers upon the children, upon the
third generation and upon the fourth of
them that hate me: 6 And showing mercy
unto thousands to them that love me, and
keep my commandments.
7 Thou 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.
8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it
holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labor, and do all
thy work,
10 But 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 maid,
nor thy beast, nor thy stranger that is
within thy gates. 11 For in six days the
Lord made the heaven and the earth, the
sea, and all that in them is, and rested the
seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed
the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
12 Honor thy father and thy mother, that
thy days may be prolonged upon the
land, which the Lord thy God giveth
thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbor.
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s
house, neither shalt thou covet thy
neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor
his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, neither
anything that is thy neighbor’s.
18 And all the people saw the thunders,
and the lightnings, and the sound of the
trumpet, and the mountain smoking and
when the people saw it they fled and
stood afar off,
19 And said unto Moses, Talk thou with
us, and we will hear: but let not God talk
with us, lest we die.
20 Then Moses said unto the people,
Fear not: for God is come to prove you,
and that his fear may be before you, that
ye sin not.
21 So the people stood afar off, but
Moses drew near unto the darkness
where God was.
22 And the Lord said unto Moses, Thus
thou shalt say unto the children of Israel,
Ye have seen that I have talked with you
from heaven.
23 Ye shall not make therefore with me
gods of silver, nor gods of gold: you
shall make you none.
24 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto
me, and thereon shalt offer thy burnt
offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy
sheep, and thine oxen: in all places,
where I shall put the remembrance of my
name, I will come unto thee, and bless
thee.
25 But if thou wilt make me an altar of
stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn
stones: for if thou lift up thy tool upon
them, thou hast polluted them. 26 Neither
shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar,
that thy filthiness be not discovered
thereon.