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Exodus - Chapter 20

Exd 20:1	¶	And God spake all these words, saying,
Exd 20:2	¶	I [am] the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Exd 20:3	¶	Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Exd 20:4	¶	Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or 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:
Exd 20:5		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;
Exd 20:6		And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Exd 20:7	¶	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.
Exd 20:8	¶	Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exd 20:9		Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Exd 20:10		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:
Exd 20:11		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.
Exd 20:12	¶	Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Exd 20:13	¶	Thou shalt not kill.
Exd 20:14	¶	Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Exd 20:15	¶	Thou shalt not steal.
Exd 20:16	¶	Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Exd 20:17	¶	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 any thing that [is] thy neighbour's.
Exd 20:18	¶	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.
Exd 20:19		And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
Exd 20:20		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.
Exd 20:21		And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God [was].
Exd 20:22	¶	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.
Exd 20:23		Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
Exd 20:24		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 all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
Exd 20:25		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.
Exd 20:26		Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

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