Chapter 20 And God spake all these words, saying,
I am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the
third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands
of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not
hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath
of the Lord thy God.
In it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter,
thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is
within thy gates.
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is,
and rested the seventh day.
Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land
which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal,
thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour, thou shalt not covet thy
neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant,
nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy
neighbour's.
And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the
trumpet, and the mountain smoking.
And when the people saw it, they removed and stood afar off, and they said unto
Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear, but let not God speak with us,
lest we die.
And Moses said unto the people, Fear not, for God is come to prove you,
and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick
darkness where God was.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel,
Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of
gold.
An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt
offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen.
In all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless
thee.
And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn
stone, for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not
discovered thereon.