Chapter 20
1And God spoke all these words:
2“I am AO your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
3You shall have no other gods before Me.
4{You shall} not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below or in the waters beneath.
5You shall not bow down to them or worship them for I, AO your God, am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers on [their] children to the third and fourth [generations] of those who hate Me
6but showing loving devotion to a thousand [generations] of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
7You {shall} not take the name of AO your God in vain for AO will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.
8Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
9Six days you shall labor and do all your work
10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to AO your God on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates.
11For [in] six days AO made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that [is] in them but on the seventh day He rested. Therefore, AO blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.
12Honor your father and mother so that your days may be long in the land that AO your God is giving you.
13You shall not murder.
14You shall not commit adultery.
15You shall not steal.
16You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
17You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his maidservant or his ox or donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
18When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sounding of the ram’s horn and the mountain enveloped in smoke, they trembled and stood at a distance.
19“Speak to us yourself and we will listen,” they said to Moses. “But do not let God speak to us or we will die.”
20“Do not be afraid,” Moses replied. “For to test you, God has come so that the fear of Him may be before you to keep you from sinning.”
21And the people stood at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.
22Then AO said to Moses, “This is what you are to tell the Israelites: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven.
23You are not to make alongside Me any gods; you are not to make for yourselves gods of silver or gold.
24You are to make an altar of earth for Me and sacrifice offer on it your burnt grain offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.
25Now if you make for Me an altar of stones, you must not build it with stones shaped by tools for if you use a chisel on it you will defile it.
26And you must not go up on steps to My altar, lest your nakedness be exposed on it.’[”]