“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
“You shall have no other gods before me.
“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or 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. You shall not bow
down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous
God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the
third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing
steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my
commandments.
“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.
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall
labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to
the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your
son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant,
or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For
in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that
is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD
blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in
the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
“You shall not murder.
“You shall not commit adultery.
“You shall not steal.
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
“You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet
your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant,
or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.”
Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of
lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking,
the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off and
said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let
God speak to us, lest we die.” Moses said to the people, “Do not
fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be
before you, that you may not sin.” The people stood far off, while
Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
And the LORD said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the people of
Israel: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have talked with you
from heaven. You shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor
shall you make for yourselves gods of gold. An altar of earth you
shall make for me and 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 bless you. If
you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn
stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it. And you
shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not
exposed on it.’
