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Exodus - Chapter 20

	Exd 20:1	And God spoke all these words, saying:
	Exd 20:2	"I [am] the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
	Exd 20:3	"You shall have no other gods before Me.
	Exd 20:4	"You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness [of anything] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth;
	Exd 20:5	you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth [generations] of those who hate Me,
	Exd 20:6	but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
	Exd 20:7	"You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold [him] guiltless who takes His name in vain.
	Exd 20:8	"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
	Exd 20:9	Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
	Exd 20:10	but the seventh day [is] the Sabbath of the LORD your God. [In it] you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who [is] within your gates.
	Exd 20:11	For [in] six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that [is] in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
	Exd 20:12	"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.
	Exd 20:13	"You shall not murder.
	Exd 20:14	"You shall not commit adultery.
	Exd 20:15	"You shall not steal.
	Exd 20:16	"You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
	Exd 20:17	"You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that [is] your neighbor's."
	Exd 20:18	Now all the people witnessed the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw [it], they trembled and stood afar off.
	Exd 20:19	Then they said to Moses, "You speak with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die."
	Exd 20:20	And Moses said to the people, "Do not fear; for God has come to test you, and that His fear may be before you, so that you may not sin."
	Exd 20:21	So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God [was].
	Exd 20:22	Then the LORD said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: 'You have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
	Exd 20:23	'You shall not make [anything to be] with Me--gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves.
	Exd 20:24	'An altar of earth you shall make for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record My name I will come to you, and I will bless you.
	Exd 20:25	'And if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it.
	Exd 20:26	'Nor shall you go up by steps to My altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed on it.'

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