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for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/20-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><HL>but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. <p class="reg"><p class="list1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain. <p class="reg"><p class="list1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. <p class="reg"><p class="list1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Six days you shall labor and do all your work, <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/20-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><HL>but the seventh day is a sabbath of Yahweh your God; <i>in it</i> you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female slave or your cattle or your sojourner who is within your gates. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/20-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><HL>For in six days Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the sabbath day and made it holy. <p class="reg"><p class="list1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/20-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. <p class="reg"><p class="list1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/20-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“You shall not murder. <p class="reg"><p class="list1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/20-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“You shall not commit adultery. <p class="reg"><p class="list1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“You shall not steal. <p class="reg"><p class="list1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/20-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. <p class="reg"><p class="list1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/20-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male slave or his female slave or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/20-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And all the people perceived the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>thunder and the lightning flashes and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and the people perceived <i>it</i>, and they shook and stood at a distance. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/20-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then they said to Moses, “Speak <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>to us yourself, and we will listen; but let not God speak <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>to us, lest we die.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/20-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid; for God has come in order to test you, and in order that the fear of Him may <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>be with you, so that you may not sin.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/20-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So the people stood at a distance, but Moses came near the dense gloom where God <i>was</i>. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/20-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘You yourselves have seen that I have spoken <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>to you from heaven. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/20-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>You shall not make <i>other gods</i> besides Me; gods of silver or gods of gold, you shall not make for yourselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/20-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>You shall make an altar of earth for Me, and you shall 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/20-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And if you make an altar of stone for Me, you shall not build it of cut stones, for if you wield your tool on it, you will profane it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/20-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And you shall not go up by steps to My altar, so that your nakedness will not be exposed on it.’<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">2</span> Lit <i>slaves</i><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> Or <i>besides Me</i><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> Or <i>a graven image</i><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Or <i>hold him guiltless</i><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> Lit <i>sounds</i><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> Lit <i>with</i><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> Lit <i>with</i><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> Lit <i>be before</i><br><span class="fnverse">22</span> Lit <i>with</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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