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Exodus 19

    ²When they had departed from Rephidim and had come to the Wilderness of Sinai, they encamped there before the mountain.

    ³And Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him out of the mountain, Say this to the house of Jacob and tell the Israelites:

    ⁴You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to Myself.

    ⁵Now therefore, if you will obey My voice in truth and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own peculiar possession and treasure from among and above all peoples; for all the earth is Mine.

    ⁶And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests, a holy nation [consecrated, set apart to the worship of God]. These are the words you shall speak to the Israelites.

    ⁷So Moses called for the elders of the people and told them all these words which the Lord commanded him.

    ⁸And all the people answered together, and said, All that the Lord has spoken we will do. And Moses reported the words of the people to the Lord.

    ⁹And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you and believe you and remain steadfast forever. Then Moses told the words of the people to the Lord.

    ¹⁰And the Lord said to Moses, Go and sanctify the people [set them apart for God] today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes

    ¹¹And be ready by the third day, for the third day the Lord will come down upon Mount Sinai [in the cloud] in the sight of all the people.

    ¹²And you shall set bounds for the people round about, saying, Take heed that you go not up into the mountain or touch the border of it. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.

    ¹³No hand shall touch it [or the offender], but he shall surely be stoned or shot [with arrows]; whether beast or man, he shall not live. When the trumpet sounds a long blast, they shall come up to the mountain.^(A)

    ¹⁴So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified them [set them apart for God], and they washed their clothes.

    ¹⁵And he said to the people, Be ready by the day after tomorrow; do not go near a woman.

    ¹⁶The third morning there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled.

    ¹⁷Then Moses brought the people from the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

    ¹⁸Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke, for the Lord descended upon it in fire; its smoke ascended like that of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.

    ¹⁹As the trumpet blast grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him with a voice.^(B)

    ²⁰The Lord came down upon Mount Sinai to the top of the mountain, and the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

    ²¹The Lord said to Moses, Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to the Lord to gaze and many of them perish.

    ²²And also let the priests, who come near to the Lord, sanctify (set apart) themselves [for God], lest the Lord break forth against them.

    ²³And Moses said to the Lord, The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for You Yourself charged us, saying, Set bounds about the mountain and sanctify it [set it apart for God].

    ²⁴Then the Lord said to him, Go, get down and you shall come up, you and Aaron with you; but let not the priests and the people break through to come up to the Lord, lest He break forth against them.

    ²⁵So Moses went down to the people and told them.

Exodus 20

    ²I am the Lord your God, Who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

    ³You shall have no other gods before or besides Me.

    ⁴You shall not make yourself any graven image [to worship it] or any likeness of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;

    ⁵You shall not bow down yourself to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me,^(C)

    ⁶But showing mercy and steadfast love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

    ⁷You shall not use or repeat the name of the Lord your God in vain [that is, lightly or frivolously, in false affirmations or profanely]; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

    ⁸[Earnestly] remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy (withdrawn from common employment and dedicated to God).

    ⁹Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

    ¹⁰But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, your daughter, your manservant, your maidservant, your domestic animals, or the sojourner within your gates.

    ¹¹For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. That is why the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it [set it apart for His purposes].

    ¹²Regard (treat with honor, due obedience, and courtesy) your father and mother, that your days may be long in the land the Lord your God gives you.

    ¹³You shall not commit murder.

    ¹⁴You shall not commit ^[a]adultery.^(D)

    ¹⁵You shall not steal.^(E)

    ¹⁶You shall not witness falsely against your neighbor.^(F)

    ¹⁷You shall not covet your neighbor's house, your neighbor's wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.^(G)

    ¹⁸Now all the people perceived the thunderings and the lightnings and the noise of the trumpet and the smoking mountain, and as [they] looked they trembled with fear and fell back and stood afar off.

    ¹⁹And they said to Moses, You speak to us and we will listen, but let not God speak to us, lest we die.

    ²⁰And Moses said to the people, Fear not; for God has come to prove you, so that the [reverential] fear of Him may be before you, that you may not sin.

    ²¹And the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

    ²²And the Lord said to Moses, Thus shall you say to the Israelites, You have seen for yourselves that I have talked with you from heaven.

    ²³You shall not make [gods to share] with Me [My glory and your worship]; gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves.

    ²⁴An altar of earth you shall make to Me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record My name and cause it to be remembered I will come to you and bless you.

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

    ²⁶Neither shall you go up by steps to My altar, that your nakedness be not exposed upon it.

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²¹Then Peter came up to Him and said, Lord, how many times may my brother sin against me and I forgive him and ^[a]let it go? [As many as] up to seven times?

    ²²Jesus answered him, I tell you, not up to seven times, but seventy times seven!^(A)

    ²³Therefore the kingdom of heaven is like a human king who wished to settle accounts with his attendants.

    ²⁴When he began the accounting, one was brought to him who owed him 10,000 talents [probably about $10,000,000],

    ²⁵And because he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and his children and everything that he possessed, and payment to be made.

    ²⁶So the attendant fell on his knees, begging him, Have patience with me and I will pay you everything.

    ²⁷And his master's heart was moved with compassion, and he released him and forgave him [cancelling] the debt.

    ²⁸But that same attendant, as he went out, found one of his fellow attendants who owed him a hundred denarii [about twenty dollars]; and he caught him by the throat and said, Pay what you owe!

    ²⁹So his fellow attendant fell down and begged him earnestly, Give me time, and I will pay you all !

    ³⁰But he was unwilling, and he went out and had him put in prison till he should pay the debt.

    ³¹When his fellow attendants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed, and they went and told everything that had taken place to their master.

    ³²Then his master called him and said to him, You contemptible and wicked attendant! I forgave and cancelled all that [great] debt of yours because you begged me to.

    ³³And should you not have had pity and mercy on your fellow attendant, as I had pity and mercy on you?

    ³⁴And in wrath his master turned him over to the torturers (the jailers), till he should pay all that he owed.

    ³⁵So also My heavenly Father will deal with every one of you if you do not freely forgive your brother from your heart his offenses.