Exodus 20

¹And God spoke all these words, saying:

²“I am the Lord

³“You shall have no other gods before Me.

⁴“You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;

⁵you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord

⁶but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

⁷“You shall not take the name of the Lord

⁸“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

⁹Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

¹⁰but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord

¹¹For in six days the Lord

¹²“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord

¹³“You shall not murder.

¹⁴“You shall not commit adultery.

¹⁵“You shall not steal.

¹⁶“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

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.”

¹⁸Now all the people witnessed the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off.

¹⁹Then they said to Moses, “You speak with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.”

²⁰And Moses said to the people, “Do not fear; for God has come to test you, and that His fear may be before you, so that you may not sin.”

²¹So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

²²Then the Lord

²³You shall not make anything to be with Me—gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves.

²⁴An altar of earth you shall make for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record My name I will come to you, and I will bless you.

²⁵And if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it.

²⁶Nor shall you go up by steps to My altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed on it.’