20Exodus 20

1God spoke all these words, saying,Select Exodus 20:1

2“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.Select Exodus 20:2

3“You shall have no other gods before me.Select Exodus 20:3

4“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:Select Exodus 20:4

5you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,Select Exodus 20:5

6and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.Select Exodus 20:6

7“You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.Select Exodus 20:7

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

9You shall labor six days, and do all your work,Select Exodus 20:9

10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;Select Exodus 20:10

11for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.Select Exodus 20:11

12“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.Select Exodus 20:12

13“You shall not murder.Select Exodus 20:13

14“You shall not commit adultery.Select Exodus 20:14

15“You shall not steal.Select Exodus 20:15

16“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.Select Exodus 20:16

17“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”Select Exodus 20:17

18All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.Select Exodus 20:18

19They said to Moses, “Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don’t let God speak with us, lest we die.”Select Exodus 20:19

20Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won’t sin.”Select Exodus 20:20

21The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.Select Exodus 20:21

22Yahweh said to Moses, “This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.Select Exodus 20:22

23You shall most certainly not make alongside of me gods of silver, or gods of gold for yourselves.Select Exodus 20:23

24You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.Select Exodus 20:24

25If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.Select Exodus 20:25

26Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.’Select Exodus 20:26