20:2 “I, ³  the Lord, am your God, ⁴  who brought you ⁵  from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery. ⁶ 

20:3 “You shall have no ⁷  other gods before me. ⁸ 

20:4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image ⁹  or any likeness ¹⁰  of anything ¹¹  that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below. ¹²  20:5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, ¹³  for I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous ¹⁴  God, responding to ¹⁵  the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations ¹⁶  of those who reject me, ¹⁷  20:6 and showing covenant faithfulness ¹⁸  to a thousand generations ¹⁹  of those who love me and keep my commandments.

20:7 “You shall not take ²⁰  the name of the Lord your God in vain, ²¹  for the Lord will not hold guiltless ²²  anyone who takes his name in vain.

20:8 “Remember ²³  the Sabbath ²⁴  day to set it apart as holy. ²⁵  20:9 For six days ²⁶  you may labor ²⁷  and do all your work, ²⁸  20:10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on it ²⁹  you shall not do any work, you, ³⁰  or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or the resident foreigner who is in your gates. ³¹  20:11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.

20:12 “Honor ³²  your father and your mother, that you may live a long time ³³  in the land ³⁴  the Lord your God is giving to you.

20:13 “You shall not murder. ³⁵ 

20:14 “You shall not commit adultery. ³⁶ 

20:15 “You shall not steal. ³⁷ 

20:16 “You shall not give ³⁸  false testimony ³⁹  against your neighbor.

20:17 “You shall not covet ⁴⁰  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 belongs to your neighbor.” ⁴¹ 

20:18 All the people were seeing ⁴²  the thundering and the lightning, and heard ⁴³  the sound of the horn, and saw ⁴⁴  the mountain smoking – and when ⁴⁵  the people saw it they trembled with fear ⁴⁶  and kept their distance. ⁴⁷  20:19 They said to Moses, “You speak ⁴⁸  to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die.” 20:20 Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to test you, ⁴⁹  that the fear of him ⁵⁰  may be before you so that you do not ⁵¹  sin.” 20:21 The people kept ⁵²  their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness ⁵³  where God was. ⁵⁴ 

20:24 ‘You must make for me an altar made of earth, ⁵⁹  and you will sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, ⁶⁰  your sheep and your cattle. In every place ⁶¹  where I cause my name to be honored ⁶²  I will come to you and I will bless you. 20:25 If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it ⁶³  of stones shaped with tools, ⁶⁴  for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it. ⁶⁵  20:26 And you must not go up by steps to my altar, so that your nakedness is not exposed.’ ⁶⁶