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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Exodus 20 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/20.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/exodus/20-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Exodus 20</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/19.htm" title="Exodus 19">◄</a> Exodus 20 <a href="../exodus/21.htm" title="Exodus 21">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/exodus/20.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Ten Commandments</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And God spoke all these words, saying,</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“You shall have no other gods before<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or besides">a</a></sup></span> me.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> 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, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>but showing steadfast love to thousands<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or to the thousandth generation">b</a></sup></span> of those who love me and keep my commandments.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“You shall not take the name of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God in vain, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For in six days the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God is giving you.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“You shall not murder.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Hebrew word also covers causing human death through carelessness or negligence">c</a></sup></span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“You shall not commit adultery.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“You shall not steal.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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 servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Samaritan, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Masoretic Text the people saw">d</a></sup></span> and trembled, and they stood far off <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The people stood far off, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.</p> <p class="heading">Laws About Altars</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the people of Israel: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have talked with you from heaven. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>You shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>An altar of earth you shall make for me and 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="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And you shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not exposed on it.’</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> Or <i>besides</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">to</span> the thousandth generation</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> The Hebrew word also covers causing human death through carelessness or negligence<br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> Samaritan, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Masoretic Text <i><span class="catch-word">the people</span> saw</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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