Text of the commandments
The
following is the text of the commandments from Exodus
20:1-17, New Revised Standard Version. Because the commandments are divided in
different ways, they are presented as verses below, without
itemization.
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1Then God spoke all these
words: 2I
am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house
of slavery; 3you shall have no other gods before me. 4You
shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in
heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the
earth. 5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the
Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents,
to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me, 6but
showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and
keep my commandments. 7You shall not make wrongful use of the name of
the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.
8Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. 9Six days you
shall labor and do all your work. 10But the seventh day is a sabbath
to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter,
your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns.
11For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all
that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the
sabbath day and consecrated it. 12Honor your father and your mother,
so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
13You shall not murder. 14You shall not commit adultery.
15You shall not steal. 16You shall not bear false witness
against your neighbor. 17You shall not covet your neighbor’s house;
you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or
donkey, or anything that belongs to your
neighbor.
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—Exodus 20:1-17
(NRSV)
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