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Exodus 20
The Words of the Covenant
And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an image, or any likeness of what is in the heavens above or on the earth beneath or in the waters under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of fathers upon children, upon the third generation and upon the fourth, of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands, to those who love me and keep my commandments. You shall not lift up the name of the LORD your God for emptiness, for the LORD will not hold guiltless the one who lifts up his name for emptiness.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You shall not do any work—you, or your son, or your daughter, your servant or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not desire your neighbor’s house; you shall not desire your neighbor’s wife, or his servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”