Exodus 20

1 Ref And God said all these words:

2 Ref I am the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

3 Ref You are to have no other gods but me.

4 Ref You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:

5 Ref You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

6 Ref And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws.

7 Ref You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord

8 Ref Keep in memory the Sabbath and let it be a holy day.

9 Ref On six days do all your work:

10 Ref But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living among you:

11 Ref For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and everything in them, and he took his rest on the seventh day: for this reason the Lord has given his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy.

12 Ref Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

13 Ref Do not put anyone to death without cause.

14 Ref Do not be false to the married relation.

15 Ref Do not take the property of another.

16 Ref Do not give false witness against your neighbour.

17 Ref Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his.

18 Ref And all the people were watching the thunderings and the flames and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when they saw it, they kept far off, shaking with fear.

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