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Exodus 20

1And God spoke all these words, saying, 2I am Yehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3You shall have no other gods before me. 4You shall not make for yourself a graven image, nor 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: 5you shall not bow down to them, nor serve them; for I Yehovah your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6and showing lovingkindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. 7You shall not take the name of Yehovah your God in vain; for Yehovah will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. 8Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9Six days you shall labor, and do all your work; 10but the seventh day is a sabbath to Yehovah your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates: 11for in six days Yehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day: therefore Yehovah blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 12Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yehovah your God gives you. 13You shall not kill. 14You shall not commit adultery. 15You shall not steal. 16You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. 17You shall not covet your neighbor’s house, you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s. 18And 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 far off. 19And they said to Moses, You speak with us, and we will hear; but do not let God speak with us, lest we die. 20And Moses said to the people, Do not fear: for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you may not sin. 21And the people stood far off, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was. 22And Yehovah said to Moses, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. 23You shall not make other gods with me; gods of silver, or gods of gold, you shall not make for yourselves. 24An altar of earth you shall make to me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt-offerings, and your peace-offerings, your sheep, and your oxen: in every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and I will bless you. 25And if you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones; for if you lift up your tool upon it, you have polluted it. 26Nor shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed on it.