20Exodus 20

CHAP. XX. / 1 The ten Commandements. 18 The people are afraid. 20 Moses comforteth them. 22 Idolatrie is forbidden. 24 Of what sort the Altar should be.

1And God spake all these words, saying,Select Exodus 20:1

2I am the Lord thy God, which haue brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage:Select Exodus 20:2

3Thou shalt haue no other Gods before me.Select Exodus 20:3

4Thou shalt not make vnto thee any grauen Image, or any likenesse of any thing that is in heauen aboue, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water vnder the earth.Select Exodus 20:4

5Thou shalt not bow downe thy selfe to them, nor serue them: For I the Lord thy God am a iealous God, visiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children, vnto the thirde and fourth generation of them that hate me:Select Exodus 20:5

6And shewing mercy vnto thousands of them that loue mee, and keepe my Commandements.Select Exodus 20:6

7Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vaine: for the Lord will not holde him guiltlesse, that taketh his Name in vaine.Select Exodus 20:7

8Remember the Sabbath day, to keepe it holy.Select Exodus 20:8

9Sixe dayes shalt thou labour, and doe all thy worke:Select Exodus 20:9

10But the seuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not doe any worke, thou, nor thy sonne, nor thy daughter, thy man seruant, nor thy mayd seruant, nor thy cattell, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:Select Exodus 20:10

11For in sixe dayes the Lord made heauen and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seuenth day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and halowed it.Select Exodus 20:11

12Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy dayes may bee long vpon the land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee.Select Exodus 20:12

13Thou shalt not kill.Select Exodus 20:13

14Thou shalt not commit adultery.Select Exodus 20:14

15Thou shalt not steale.Select Exodus 20:15

16Thou shalt not beare false witnes against thy neighbour.Select Exodus 20:16

17Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours house, thou shalt not couet thy neighbours wife, nor his man seruant, nor his maid seruant, nor his oxe, nor his asse, nor any thing that is thy neighbours.Select Exodus 20:17

18And all the people saw the thundrings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountaine smoking: and when the people saw it, they remooued, and stood a farre off.Select Exodus 20:18

19And they saide vnto Moses, Speake thou with vs, and wee will heare: But let not God speake with vs, lest we die.Select Exodus 20:19

20And Moses said vnto the people, Feare not: for God is come to prooue you, and that his feare may bee before your faces, that ye sinne not.Select Exodus 20:20

21And the people stood afarre off, and Moses drew neere vnto the thicke darkenes, where God was.Select Exodus 20:21

22And the Lord said vnto Moses, Thus thou shalt say vnto the children of Israel, Yee haue seene that I haue talked with you from heauen.Select Exodus 20:22

23Ye shall not make with me gods of siluer, neither shall ye make vnto you gods of gold.Select Exodus 20:23

24An Altar of earth thou shalt make vnto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheepe, and thine oxen: In all places where I record my Name, I will come vnto thee, and I will blesse thee.Select Exodus 20:24

25And if thou wilt make mee an Altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewen stone: for if thou lift vp thy toole vpon it, thou hast polluted it.Select Exodus 20:25

26Neither shalt thou goe vp by steps vnto mine Altar, that thy nakednesse be not discouered thereon.Select Exodus 20:26