Deuteronomy 5:6-21

Common English Bible

⁶ I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

⁷ You must have no other gods before^[a] me. ⁸ Do not make an idol for yourself—no form whatsoever—of anything in the sky above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth. ⁹ Do not bow down to them or worship them because I, the Lord your God, am a passionate God. I punish children for their parents’ sins—even to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me. ¹⁰ But I am loyal and gracious to the thousandth generation^[b] of those who love me and keep my commandments.

¹¹ Do not use the Lord your God’s name as if it were of no significance; the Lord won’t forgive anyone who uses his name that way.

¹² Keep the Sabbath day and treat it as holy, exactly as the Lord your God commanded: ¹³ Six days you may work and do all your tasks, ¹⁴ but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. Don’t do any work on it—not you, your sons or daughters, your male or female servants, your oxen or donkeys or any of your animals, or the immigrant who is living among you—so that your male and female servants can rest just like you. ¹⁵ Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, but the Lord your God brought you out of there with a strong hand and an outstretched arm. That’s why the Lord your God commands you to keep the Sabbath day.

¹⁶ Honor your father and your mother, exactly as the Lord your God requires, so that your life will be long and so that things will go well for you on the fertile land that the Lord your God is giving you.

¹⁷ Do not kill.^[c]

¹⁸ Do not commit adultery.

¹⁹ Do not steal.

²⁰ Do not testify falsely against your neighbor.

²¹ Do not desire and try to take your neighbor’s wife.

Do not crave your neighbor’s house, field, male or female servant, ox, donkey, or anything else that belongs to your neighbor.