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Exodus 20 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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The Ten Commandments

(Deu 5:1–22 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:1 - And God said all these words:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:2 - I am the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:3 - You are to have no other gods but me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:4 - You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:5 - 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;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:6 - And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:7 - 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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:8 - Keep in memory the Sabbath and let it be a holy day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:9 - On six days do all your work:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:10 - 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:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:11 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:12 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:13 - Do not put anyone to death without cause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:14 - Do not be false to the married relation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:15 - Do not take the property of another.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:16 - Do not give false witness against your neighbour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:17 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:18 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:19 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:20 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:21 - And the people kept their places far off, but Moses went near to the dark cloud where God was.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:22 - 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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:23 - Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:24 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:25 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:26 - And do not go up by steps to my altar, for fear that your bodies may be seen uncovered.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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