The Ten Commandments
Exodus 20
And God spoke all these words, saying:
2 “I am the Lord
your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage.
3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
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;
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,
6 but showing mercy to thousands, to
those who love Me and keep My commandments.
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.
8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
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.
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.
12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your
days may be long upon the land which the Lord
your God is giving you.
13 “You shall not murder.
14 “You shall not commit adultery.
15 “You shall not steal.
16 “You shall not bear false witness against your
neighbor.
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.”