also known as "The Decalogue"
Chapter 20 Second Book of the Torah
modern translation (1966) Jerusalem Bible
undertaken from a French Ecole Biblique
Then God spoke all these words. He said,
I am Yahweh your God who brought you
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house
of slavery.
You shall have no _gods except me.
You shall not make yourself a carved image
or any likeness of anything in heaven or on
earth beneath or in the waters under the earth;
you shall not bow down to them or serve them.
For I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God
and I punish the father's fault in the sons,
the grandsons, and the great-grandsons of
those who hate me; but I show kindness to
thousands of those who love me and keep
my commandments.
You shall not utter the name of Yahweh your
God to misuse it, for Yahweh will not leave
unpunished the man who utters his name
to misuse it.
Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.
For six days you shall labor and do all your
work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath for
Yahweh your God. You shall do not work
that day, neither you nor your son nor your
daughter nor your servants, men or women,
nor your animals, nor the stranger who lives
with you. For in six days Yahweh made the heavens
and the earth and the sea and all that these
hold, but on the seventh day he rested; that
is why Yahweh has blessed the sabbath day
and made it sacred.
Honor your Father and your mother so that
you may have a long life in the land that
Yahweh your God has given to you.
You shall not kill.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your
neighbor.
You shall not covet your neighbor's house.
You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or
his servant, man or woman, or his ox, or his
donkey, or anything that is his.
All the people shook with fear at the peals of
thunder and the lightning flashes, the sound of
the trumpet, and the smoking mountain; and
they kept their distance. "Speak to us yourself,"
they said to Moses "and we will listen but do not
let God speak to us, or we shall die." Moses
answered the people,
"Do not be afraid; God has come to test you,
so that your fear of him, being always in your
mind, may keep you from sinning." So the people
kept their distance while Moses approached the
dark cloud where God was.
Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the sons of Israel
this, 'You have seen for yourselves that I have
spoken to you from heaven. You shall not make
_gods of silver or _gods of gold to stand beside
me; you shall not make things like this for
yourselves. You are to make me an altar of
earth, and sacrifice on this the holocausts and
communion sacrifices from your flocks or herds.
If you make me an altar of stone, do not build
it of dressed stones; for if you use a tool on it,
you profane it. You shall not go up to my altar
by steps for fear you expose your nakedness.'"
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