Exod 20
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And God spoke all these words, saying,
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I am YHWH your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage.
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You shall have no other gods before me.
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You shall not make to you a graven image, nor any likeness [of any thing] that is
in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the
earth.
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You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them, for I YHWH your God am a
jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third
and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,
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and showing lovingkindness to thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
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You shall not take the name of YHWH your God in vain; for YHWH will not hold him guiltless
that takes his name in vain.
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Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
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Six days shall you labor, and do all your work;
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but the seventh day is a sabbath to YHWH your God: [in it] you shall not do any work,
you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor
your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates:
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for in six days YHWH made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and
rested the seventh day: wherefore YHWH blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
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Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which YHWH
your God gives you.
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You shall not kill.
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You shall not commit adultery.
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You shall not steal.
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You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
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You shall not covet your neighbor`s house, you shall not covet your neighbor`s wife,
nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that
is your neighbor`s.
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And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of
the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they trembled,
and stood afar off.
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And they said to Moses, Speak you with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak
with us, lest we die.
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And Moses said to the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his
fear may be before you, that you sin not.
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And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God
was.
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And YHWH said to Moses, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, You yourselves
have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
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You shall not make [other gods] with me; gods of silver, or gods of gold, you shall
not make to you.
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An altar of earth you shall make to me, and shall sacrifice thereon 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.
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And if you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones; for if
you lift up your tool upon it, you have polluted it.
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Neither shall you go up by steps to mine altar, that your nakedness be not uncovered
thereon.