Exodus 20

1 God ('Elohiym) spoke all these words, saying,

2 “I am I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God ('Elohiym), which have brought you out of the land of Double Straights (Egypt), out of the house of bondage.

3 You will have no other gods ('elohiym) before me.

4 You will not make to you any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

5 You will not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them: for I, I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) God ('Elohiym) am a jealous god ('el), visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

6 And showing mercy to thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

7 You will not take the name of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) God ('Elohiym) in vain; for I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) will not hold him guiltless that takes His name in vain.

8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

9 Six days will you labor, and do all your work:

10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) God ('Elohiym): in it you will not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates:

11 For in six days I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: therefore I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

12 Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long upon the land which I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) God ('Elohiym) gives you.

13 You will not murder.

14 You will not commit adultery.

15 You will not steal.

16 You will not bear false witness against your neighbor.

17 You will not covet your neighbor's house, you will not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is your neighbor's.”

18 Then all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they backed up, and stood afar off.

19 And they said to Drawn (Moses), “You speak with us, and we will hear: but let not God ('Elohiym) speak with us, lest we die.”

20 Drawn (Moses) exhorted the people, “Fear not: for God ('Elohiym) comes to prove you, and that His reverence may be before your faces, that you sin not.”

21 So the people stood afar off, and Drawn (Moses) drew near to the thick darkness where God ('Elohiym) was.

22 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) said to Drawn (Moses), “Thus you will say to the children of God Prevails (Israel), you have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

23 you will not make gods ('elohiym) of silver, neither will you make gods ('elohiym) of gold.

24 An altar of earth you will make to Me, and will sacrifice thereon your burnt offerings, and your peace offerings, your sheep, and your oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come to you, and I will bless you.

25 And if you will make Me an altar of stone, you will not build it of hewn stone: for if you lift up your tool upon it, you have polluted it.

26 Neither will you go up by steps to mine altar, that your nakedness be not discovered thereon.”