The Ten Commandments Reviewed
1 And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your hearing today, that you may learn them and be careful to observe them.
2 TheLordour God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
3 TheLorddid not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, those whoarehere today, all of us whoarealive.
4 TheLordtalked with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire.
5 I stood between theLordand you at that time, to declare to you the word of theLord; foryou were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up the mountain.Hesaid:
6 ‘IamtheLordyour God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
7 ‘You shall have no other gods before Me.
8 ‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likenessofanythingthatisin heaven above, or thatisin the earth beneath, or thatisin the water under the earth;
9 you shall notbow down to them nor serve them. For I, theLordyour God,ama jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourthgenerationsof those who hate Me,
10 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
11 ‘You shall not take the name of theLordyour God in vain, for theLordwill not holdhimguiltless who takes His name in vain.
12 ‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as theLordyour God commanded you.
13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
14 but the seventh dayistheSabbath of theLordyour God.Inityou shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger whoiswithin your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
15 And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and theLordyour God brought you out from thereby a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore theLordyour God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
16 ‘Honor your father and your mother, as theLordyour God has commanded you,that your days may be long, and that it may be well withyou in the land which theLordyour God is giving you.
17 ‘You shall not murder.
18 ‘You shall not commit adultery.
19 ‘You shall not steal.
20 ‘You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
21 ‘You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife; and you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his male servant, his female servant, his ox, his donkey, or anything thatisyour neighbor’s.’
22 “These words theLordspoke to all your assembly, in the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and He added no more. AndHe wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
The People Afraid of God’s Presence
23 “So it was, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders.
24 And you said: ‘Surely theLordour God has shown us His glory and His greatness, andwe have heard His voice from the midst of the fire. We have seen this day that God speaks with man; yet hestilllives.
25 Now therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us;if we hear the voice of theLordour God anymore, then we shall die.
26 For whoisthereof all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as wehave,and lived?
27 You go near and hear all that theLordour God may say, andtell us all that theLordour God says to you, and we will hear and doit.’
28 “Then theLordheard the voice of your words when you spoke to me, and theLordsaid to me: ‘I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you.They are rightinall that they have spoken.
29 Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear Me andalways keep all My commandments,that it might be well with them and with their children forever!
30 Go and say to them, “Return to your tents.”
31 But as for you, stand here by Me,and I will speak to you all the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which you shall teach them, that they may observethemin the land which I am giving them to possess.’
32 “Therefore you shall be careful to do as theLordyour God has commanded you;you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
33 You shall walk inall the ways which theLordyour God has commanded you, that you may liveandthatitmaybewell with you, andthatyou may prolongyourdays in the land which you shall possess.