^{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.

^{19 Ref} And they said to Moses, To your words we will give ear, but let not the voice of God come to our ears, for fear death may come on us.

^{20 Ref} And Moses said to the people, Have no fear: for God has come to put you to the test, so that fearing him you may be kept from sin.

^{21 Ref} And the people kept their places far off, but Moses went near to the dark cloud where God was.

^{22 Ref} And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You yourselves have seen that my voice has come to you from heaven

^{23 Ref} Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for yourselves.

^{24 Ref} Make for me an altar of earth, offering on it your burned offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen: in every place where I have put the memory of my name, I will come to you and give you my blessing.

^{25 Ref} And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean.

^{26 Ref} And do not go up by steps to my altar, for fear that your bodies may be seen uncovered.