Exodus 20:1-10 ▼

1 And God speaks all these words, saying,

2 “I [am] your God YHWH, who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants.

3 You have no other Gods before Me.

4 You do not make a carved image for yourself, 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.

5 You do not bow yourself to them, nor serve them: for I, your God YHWH, [am] a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on a third and on a fourth [generation] of those hating Me,

6 and doing kindness to thousands, of those loving Me and keeping My commands.

7 You do not take up the Name of your God YHWH for a vain thing, for YHWH does not acquit him who takes up His Name for a vain thing.

8 Remember the Sabbath day to sanctify it;

9 six days you labor and have done all your work,

10 and the seventh day [is] a Sabbath to your God YHWH; you do not do any work, you, and your son, and your daughter, your manservant, and your handmaid, and your livestock, and your sojourner who is within your gates—