| 20:1 | And God said all these words: |
| 20:2 | I am the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house. |
| 20:3 | You are to have no other gods but me. |
| 20:4 | You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth: |
| 20:5 | You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters; |
| 20:6 | And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws. |
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| 20:8 | Keep in memory the Sabbath and let it be a holy day. |
| 20:9 | On six days do all your work: |
| 20:10 | But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living among you: |
| 20:11 | For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and everything in them, and he took his rest on the seventh day: for this reason the Lord has given his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy. |
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| 20:12 | Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. |
| 20:13 | Do not put anyone to death without cause. |
| 20:14 | Do not be false to the married relation. |
| 20:15 | Do not take the property of another. |
| 20:16 | Do not give false witness against your neighbour. |
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| 20:18 | And all the people were watching the thunderings and the flames and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when they saw it, they kept far off, shaking with fear. |
| 20:19 | And they said to Moses, To your words we will give ear, but let not the voice of God come to our ears, for fear death may come on us. |
| 20:20 | And Moses said to the people, Have no fear: for God has come to put you to the test, so that fearing him you may be kept from sin. |
| 20:21 | And the people kept their places far off, but Moses went near to the dark cloud where God was. |
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| 20:22 | And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You yourselves have seen that my voice has come to you from heaven |
| 20:23 | Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for yourselves. |
| 20:24 | Make for me an altar of earth, offering on it your burned offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen: in every place where I have put the memory of my name, I will come to you and give you my blessing. |
| 20:25 | And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean. |
| 20:26 | And do not go up by steps to my altar, for fear that your bodies may be seen uncovered. |
Keluaran 20 - Bible in Basic English
