The Ten Commandments

(Deuteronomy 5.1-21)

20 God said to the people of Israel:

² I am the Lord your God, the one who brought you out of Egypt where you were slaves.

³ Do not worship any god except me.

^4 (A) Do not make idols that look like anything in the sky or on earth or in the ocean under the earth.

^7 (A) Do not misuse my name.^[a] I am the Lord your God, and I will punish anyone who misuses my name.

^8 (B) Remember that the Sabbath Day belongs to me. ^9 (C) You have six days when you can do your work,

^12 (A) Respect your father and your mother, and you will live a long time in the land I am giving you.

^13 (B) Do not murder.

^14 (C) Be faithful in marriage.

^15 (D) Do not steal.

^16 (E) Do not tell lies about others.

^17 (F) Do not desire to possess anything that belongs to another person—not a house, a wife, a husband, a slave, an ox, a donkey, or anything else.

The People Are Afraid

(Deuteronomy 5.23-33)

^18 (G) The people trembled with fear when they heard the thunder and the trumpet and saw the lightning and the smoke coming from the mountain. They stood a long way off ¹⁹ and said to Moses, “If you speak to us, we will listen. But don't let God speak to us, or we will die!”

²⁰ “Don't be afraid!” Moses replied. “God has come only to test you, so that by obeying him you won't sin.”