| Chapter 20 |
1 | And God spake all these words, saying,
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2 | I am Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
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3 | Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
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4 | Thou shalt not make unto thee 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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5 | Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them, for I Jehovah thy 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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6 | and showing lovingkindness unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
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7 | Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain; for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
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8 | Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
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9 | Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work;
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10 | but the seventh day is a sabbath unto Jehovah thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
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11 | for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore Jehovah blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
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12 | Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
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13 | Thou shalt not kill.
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14 | Thou shalt not commit adultery.
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15 | Thou shalt not steal.
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16 | Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
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17 | Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.
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18 | 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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19 | And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
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20 | And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before you, that ye sin not.
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21 | And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
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22 | And Jehovah said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
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23 | Ye shall not make [other gods] with me; gods of silver, or gods of gold, ye shall not make unto you.
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24 | 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 every place where I record my name I will come unto thee and I will bless thee.
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25 | And if thou make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
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26 | Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not uncovered thereon.
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