The ten commandments
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📚✭And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 📚✭“I am the LORD your God, who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.3 📚✭“You shall have no other gods besides✭ me.
4 📚✭“You shall not make for yourself any 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; 5 📚You shall not bow down to them, or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God✭, visiting✭ the wrongdoing✭ of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 📚and 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 that takes his name in vain. 8 📚✭“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 📚Six days you are to labour, and do all your work; 10 📚but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. You shall not do any work in it, neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your foreigner who is inside your gates; 11 📚for in six days✭ the LORD made the heaven✭ and the earth✭, the sea, and all that is in them, and ceased on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and made✭ it holy.
12 📚“Honour your father and your mother, so that your time may be long in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.
13 📚✭“You shall not commit murder.
14 📚“You shall not commit adultery.
15 📚“You shall not steal.
16 📚✭“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour✭.
17 📚✭“You shall not covet your neighbour’s house; you shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour”.
The People's Fear
18 📚✭And all the people saw the thunder and the lightning flashes, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. And when the people saw it, they trembled and stood at a distance. 19 📚And they said to Moses, “You speak with us, and we will listen; but do not have God speak with us, or we will die”.
20 📚✭And Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid; for God has come to test you so that his fear may be before your faces, so that you do not sin”.
21 📚And the people stood at a distance, and Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.
Further laws and instructions
22 📚And the LORD said to Moses, “This is what you are to say to the children of Israel: You have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. 23 📚✭To be with me you shall not make for yourself gods of silver, and you shall not make for yourself gods of gold.
24 📚✭“You shall make an altar of earth for me, and on it you shall sacrifice your burnt offerings, and your peace offerings, your sheep, and your oxen. In every place that I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you, and I will bless you✭. 25 📚And if you make an altar of stone for me, you shall not build it with cut stones, for if you use your chisel on it, you have polluted it. 26 📚Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, so that your nakedness is not exposed on it.’