The Lord reveals the Ten Commandments—Israel is to bear witness that the Lord has spoken from heaven—The children of Israel are forbidden to make gods of silver or gold—They are to make altars of unhewn stones and sacrifice to the Lord thereon.
1 And God spake all
these words, saying,
2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the
land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no
other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make
unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven
above, oth that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the
earth:
5 Thou shalt not bow
down thyself to them nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth
generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy
unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7 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.
8 Remember the sabbath
day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou
labour, and do all thy work:
10 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:
11 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.
12 Honour thy father and
thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not
commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not
steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear
false witness against thy neighbour.
17 Thou shalt not covet
thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his
manservant, his maidservant, nor his ox, nor is ass, nor any thing that is thy
neighbour’s.
18 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.
19 And they said unto
Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us,
lest we die.
20 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.
21 And the people stood
afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
22 And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus shalt say unto the
children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with ou from heaven.
23 Ye shalt not make
with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
24 An altar of earth thou
shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy
sheep, and thy oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto
thee, and I will bless thee.
25 And if thou will
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.
26 Neither shalt thou
go up by steps unto mine altr, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
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