Exodus 20

God spoke all these words, saying:

“I am God your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

There shall not be to you other gods above my face. \*

You shall not make for yourself a carved figure or the likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.

You shall not bow down to them and you shall not serve them, for I, God your God, am a jealous God. I visit the iniquity of the fathers on the sons on the third and on the fourth of the haters of me.

But I show covenant faithfulness to thousands, to lovers of me and to keepers of my commandments. \*

You shall not lift up the name of God your God with emptiness, for God will not leave unpunished anyone who lifts up my name with emptiness. \*

Remember the Sabbath day, to set it apart to me.

Six days you may labor and do all your work,

but the seventh day is a Sabbath for God your God. You shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male servant or your female servant or your cattle or the foreigner who is within your gates.

For in six days God made the heavens and earth, the sea, and everything that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore God blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart. \*

Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long on the land that God your God is giving you. \*

You shall not murder.

You shall not commit adultery.

You shall not steal. \*

You shall not testify false testimony against your neighbor.

You shall not covet the house of your neighbor; you shall not covet the wife of your neighbor or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” \*

All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking. And the people saw it, and they trembled, and they stood from a distance.

They said to Moses, “You speak to us and let us listen! But do not let God speak to us, lest we die.” \*

And Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid, for God has come to test you so that the fear of him may be above your faces and so that you do not sin.”

So the people stood far off, and Moses approached toward the thick darkness where God was. \*

And God said to Moses, “You shall speak thus to the sons of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

You shall not make alongside me—you shall not make gods of silver or gods of gold for yourselves. \*

You shall make an altar of earth for me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings, and peace offerings, sheep, and oxen. In every place where I cause my name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.

And if you make me an altar of stones, you shall not build them of cut stones, for causing your tool to move over it will defile it.

And you shall not go up to my altar on steps, so that your nakedness is not exposed over it.’ \*