THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
----Exodus 20----
1 And 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 no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven
image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in
heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or
that [is] in the water under the earth:
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them,
nor
serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous
God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
children unto the third and fourth [generation] of
them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of 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 labour, 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 maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger
that [is] within thy gates:
11 For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and
earth, the sea, and all that in them [is], and rested
the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the
sabbath day, and hallowed it.
12 ¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that
thy
days may be long 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 neighbour's
house,
thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his
manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his
ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour's.
18 ¶ And all the people saw the thunderings,
and
the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the
mountain smoking: and when the people saw [it], they
removed, and stood afar off.
19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with
us,
and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest
we die.
20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not:
for
God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be
before your faces, that ye sin not.
21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses
drew
near unto the thick 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 with me gods of silver,
neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
24 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me,
and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and
thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in
all places where I record my name I will come unto
thee, and I will bless thee.
25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of
stone,
thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou
lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto
mine
altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
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