Exodus
20:1-17
(1) 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 slavery.
(3) "You shall have no other
gods before me.
(4) "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.
(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 on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those
who hate me,
(6) but
showing steadfast love to thousands of 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 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.
(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 made it holy.
(12) "Honor your father and
your mother, that your days may be long in the land that 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, or his male
servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is
your neighbor's."