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Exodus 20 :: New English Translation (NET)

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The Ten Commandments

(Deu 5:1–22 )
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:1 - God spoke all these words:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:2 - "I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:3 - "You shall have no other gods before me.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:4 - "You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:5 - You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:6 - and showing covenant faithfulness to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:7 - "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold guiltless anyone who takes his name in vain.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:8 - "Remember the Sabbath day to set it apart as holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:9 - For six days you may labor and do all your work,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:10 - but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God; on it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or the resident foreigner who is in your gates.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:11 - For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:12 - "Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the LORD your God is giving to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:13 - "You shall not murder.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:14 - "You shall not commit adultery.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:15 - "You shall not steal.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:16 - "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:17 - "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 belongs to your neighbor."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:18 - All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking - and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:19 - They said to Moses, "You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:20 - Moses said to the people, "Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you so that you do not sin."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:21 - The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:22 - The LORD said to Moses: "Thus you will tell the Israelites: 'You yourselves have seen that I have spoken with you from heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:23 - You must not make gods of silver alongside me, nor make gods of gold for yourselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:24 - 'You must make for me an altar made of earth, and you will sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I cause my name to be honored I will come to you and I will bless you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:25 - If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it of stones shaped with tools, for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:26 - And you must not go up by steps to my altar, so that your nakedness is not exposed.'
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