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Exodus 19

    ²For departing out of Raphidim, and coming to the desert of Sinai, they camped in the same place, and there Israel pitched their tents over against the mountain.

    ³And Moses went up to God: and the Lord called unto him from the mountain, and said: Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:

    ⁴You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians, how I have carried you upon the wings of eagles, and have taken you to myself.

    ⁵If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you shall be my peculiar possession above all people: for all the earth is mine.

    ⁶And you shall be to me a priestly kingdom, and a holy nation. Those are the words thou shalt speak to the children of Israel.

    ⁷Moses came, and calling together the elders of the people, he declared all the words which the Lord had commanded.

    ⁸And all the people answered together: All that the Lord hath spoken, we will do. And when Moses had related the people's words to the Lord,

    ⁹The Lord said to him: Lo, now will I come to thee in the darkness of a cloud, that the people may hear me speaking to thee, and may believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people to the Lord.

    ¹⁰And he said to him: Go to the people, and sanctify them to day, and to morrow, and let them wash their garments.

    ¹¹And let them be ready against the third day: for on the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

    ¹²And thou shalt appoint certain limits to the people round about, and thou shalt say to them: Take heed you go not up into the mount, and that ye touch not the borders thereof: every one that toucheth the mount dying he shall die.

    ¹³No hands shall touch him, but he shall be stoned to death, or shall be shot through with arrows: whether it be beast, or man, he shall not live. When the trumpet shall begin to sound, then let them go up into the mount.

    ¹⁴And Moses came down from the mount to the people, and sanctified them. And when they had washed their garments,

    ¹⁵He said to them: Be ready against the third day, and come not near your wives.

    ¹⁶And now the third day was come, and the morning appeared: and behold thunders began to be heard, and lightning to flash, and a very thick cloud to cover the mount, and the noise of the trumpet sounded exceeding loud, and the people that was in the camp, feared.

    ¹⁷And when Moses had brought them forth to meet God from the place of the camp, they stood at the bottom of the mount.

    ¹⁸And all mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord was come down upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace: and all the mount was terrible.

    ¹⁹And the sound of the trumpet grew by degrees louder and louder, and was drawn out to a greater length: Moses spoke, and God answered him.

    ²⁰And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, in the very top of the mount, and he called Moses unto the top thereof. And when he was gone up thither,

    ²¹He said unto him: Go down, and charge the people: lest they should have a mind to pass the limits to see the Lord, and a very great multitude of them should perish.

    ²²The priests also that come to the Lord, let them be sanctified, lest he strike them.

    ²³And Moses said to the Lord: The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou did charge, and command, saying: Set limits about the mount, and sanctify it.

    ²⁴And the Lord said to him: Go, get thee down: and thou shalt come up, thou and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people pass the limits, nor come up to the Lord, lest he kill them.

    ²⁵And Moses went down to the people and told them all.

Exodus 20

    ²I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

    ³Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.

    ⁴Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth.

    ⁵Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

    ⁶And shewing mercy unto thousands to them that love me, and keep my commandments.

    ⁷Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain.

    ⁸Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day.

    ⁹Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.

    ¹⁰But on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work on it, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy beast, nor the stranger that is within thy gates.

    ¹¹For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.

    ¹²Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayest be longlived upon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee.

    ¹³Thou shalt not kill.

    ¹⁴Thou shalt not commit adultery.

    ¹⁵Thou shalt not steal.

    ¹⁶Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

    ¹⁷Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house: neither shalt thou desire his wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his.

    ¹⁸And all the people saw the voices and the flames, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mount smoking: and being terrified and struck with fear, they stood afar off,

    ¹⁹Saying to Moses: Speak thou to us, and we will hear: let not the Lord speak to us, lest we die.

    ²⁰And Moses said to the people: Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that the dread of him might be in you, and you should not sin.

    ²¹And the people stood afar off. But Moses went to the dark cloud wherein God was.

    ²²And the Lord said to Moses: Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: You have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.

    ²³You shall not make gods of silver, nor shall you make to yourselves gods of gold.

    ²⁴You shall make an altar of earth unto me, and you shall offer upon it your holocausts and peace offerings, your sheep and oxen, in every place where the memory of my name shall be: I will come to thee, and will bless thee.

    ²⁵And if thou make an altar of stone unto me, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones: for if thou lift up a tool upon it, it shall be defiled.

    ²⁶Thou shalt not go up by steps unto my altar, lest thy nakedness be discovered.

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²¹Then came Peter unto him and said: Lord, how often shall my brother offend against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?

    ²²Jesus saith to him: I say not to thee, till seven times; but till seventy times seven times.

    ²³Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened to a king, who would take an account of his servants.

    ²⁴And when he had begun to take the account, one was brought to him, that owed him ten thousand talents.

    ²⁵And as he had not wherewith to pay it, his lord commanded that he should be sold, and his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.

    ²⁶But that servant falling down, besought him, saying: Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.

    ²⁷And the lord of that servant being moved with pity, let him go and forgave him the debt.

    ²⁸But when that servant was gone out, he found one of his fellow servants that owed him an hundred pence: and laying hold of him, throttled him, saying: Pay what thou owest.

    ²⁹And his fellow servant falling down, besought him, saying: Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.

    ³⁰And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he paid the debt.

    ³¹Now his fellow servants seeing what was done, were very much grieved, and they came and told their lord all that was done.

    ³²Then his lord called him; and said to him: Thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all the debt, because thou besoughtest me:

    ³³Shouldst not thou then have had compassion also on thy fellow servant, even as I had compassion on thee?

    ³⁴And his lord being angry, delivered him to the torturers until he paid all the debt.

    ³⁵So also shall my heavenly Father do to you, if you forgive not every one his brother from your hearts.