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The Ten Commandments
(Exodus 20:1-17)
[20:1]
And God spoke all these words, saying,
[20:2]
I am the LORD your God,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondage.
[20:3]
You shall have no other gods before me.
[20:4]
You shall not make for yourself a graven 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;
[20:5]
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 upon the children
to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
[20:6]
but showing steadfast love to thousands
of those who love me and keep my commandments.
[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.
[20:8]
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
[20:9]
Six days you shall labor, and do all your work;
[20:10]
but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God;
in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter,
your manservant, or your maidservant, or your cattle,
or the sojourner who is within your gates;
[20:11]
for in six days the LORD made heaven and
earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day;
therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it.
[20:12]
Honor your father and your mother,
that your days may be long in the land
which the LORD your God gives you.
[20:13]
You shall not kill.
[20:14]
You shall not commit adultery.
[20:15]
You shall not steal.
[20:16]
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
[20:17]
You shall not covet your neighbor's house;
you shall not covet your neighbor's wife,
or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ass,
or anything that is your neighbor's.
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