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Exodus 20

CHAPTER 20 Ten Commandments

1 And the lord spoke all these words, saying, 2 I am the lord your God, the one leading you from the land of Egypt, from out of the house of slavery. 3 There shall not be to you other gods besides me. 4 You shall not make to yourself an idol, nor any representation, as much as is in the heaven upward, nor as much as is in the earth below, nor as much as is in the waters underneath the earth. 5 You shall not do obeisance to them, nor shall you serve to them. For I am the lord your God, a jealous God, rendering sins of fathers upon children unto the third and fourth generation to the ones detesting me; 6 and having mercy to thousands loving me, and guarding my orders. 7 You shall not take the name of the lord your God in vain. For no way shall the lord cleanse the one taking his name in vain. 8 Remember the day of the Sabbaths to sanctify it! 9 Six days you shall work, and shall do all your works; 10 but the [²day ¹seventh] is a Sabbath to the lord your God. You shall not do on it any work -- you, and your son, and your daughter, your servant, and your maidservant, your ox, and your beast of burden, and all your cattle, and the convert -- the one sojourning among you. 11 For in six days the lord made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all the things in them. And he rested on the [²day ¹seventh]. Because of this the lord blessed the [²day ¹seventh], and sanctified it. 12 Esteem your father and your mother! that good should happen to you, and that [²a long time ¹you may be] upon the [²earth ¹good] which the lord your God gives to you. 13 You shall not murder. 14 You shall not commit adultery. 15 You shall not steal. 16 You shall not witness falsely against your neighbor [²witness ¹as a lying]. 17 You shall not covet the wife of your neighbor. You shall not covet the house of your neighbor, nor his field, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his beast of burden, nor any of his beasts, nor as much [²to ³your neighbor ¹is]. 18 All the people perceived the voice, and the lamps, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. And fearing, all the people stood afar off. 19 And they said to Moses, You speak to us, and do not let [²speak ³to ⁴us ¹God]! lest we might die. 20 And [²says ³to them ¹Moses], Be of courage! because [⁵to test ⁶you ²came ¹God ³to ⁴you], so that there might be the fear of him in you, that you should not sin! 21 [⁵stood ¹And ²all ³the ⁴people] afar off. But Moses entered into the dimness where God was. 22 [³said ¹And ²the lord] to Moses, Thus shall you say to the house of Jacob, and announce to the sons of Israel, You have seen that from out of the heaven I have spoken to you. 23 You shall not make to yourselves gods of silver, and gods of gold; you shall not make them to yourselves. 24 An altar from out of the earth you shall make to me, and you shall sacrifice upon it your whole burnt-offerings, and your deliverance offerings -- the sheep, and your calves, in every place of which ever I should name my name there. And I will come to you, and I will bless you. 25 And if [²an altar ³of ⁴stones ¹you should make] to me, you shall not build them cut into shape; for [²your knife ¹you have put] upon them, and they are defiled. 26 You shall not ascend by stairs unto my altar, so that you should not uncover your indecency upon it.