Exodus 20:1-19 ▼

1 And God spoke all these words, saying,

2 “I am YHWH your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

3 You shall have no other gods before My face.

4 You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters under the earth.

5 You shall not bow down to them and you shall not serve them; for I, YHWH your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of fathers on sons on the third and on the fourth for those who hate Me,

6 and showing loving devotion to thousands for those who love Me and for those who keep My commandments.

7 You shall not take the name of YHWH your God in vain, for YHWH will not hold guiltless him who takes His name in vain.

8 Remember the Sabbath day to sanctify it.

9 Six days you shall labor and you shall do all your work,

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

11 For in six days YHWH made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them; and He rested on the seventh day. Therefore YHWH blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it.

12 Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long upon the land that YHWH your God is giving to you.

13 You shall not murder.

14 You shall not commit adultery.

15 You shall not steal.

16 You shall not answer against your neighbor as a false witness.

17 You shall not covet the house of your neighbor; you shall not covet the wife of your neighbor, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

18 And all the people were seeing the voices, and the flames, and the voice of the shofar, and the mountain smoking; and the people saw, and they trembled and they stood from afar.

19 And they said to Moses, “You speak with us, and we will listen; and let not God speak with us, lest we die.”