The Ten Commandments
New American Standard BibleExodus Chapter 20
Exd 20:1 Then God spoke all these words, saying,
Exd 20:2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Exd 20:3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
Exd 20:4 “You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.
Exd 20:5 “You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD 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,
Exd 20:6 but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
Exd 20:7 “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.
Exd 20:8 “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exd 20:9 “Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
Exd 20:10 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you.
Exd 20:11 “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.
Exd 20:12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
Exd 20:13 “You shall not murder.
Exd 20:14 “You shall not commit adultery.
Exd 20:15 “You shall not steal.
Exd 20:16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Exd 20:17 “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 belongs to your neighbor.”
