Exodus 20:1-17

New Catholic Bible

Chapter 20

The Ten Commandments.^{[a] 1} God spoke all these words:

² “I am the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of that place of slavery. ³ You shall not have other gods instead of me. ⁴ You shall not make idols or any image of things that are in the heavens above or that are upon the earth or that are in the waters under the earth. ⁵ You shall not bow before them nor shall you serve them. I, the Lord, am your God, a jealous God, who punishes the sins of fathers upon their sons until the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, ⁶ but I will show my favor for a thousand generations of those who love me and observe my commandments.

⁷ “You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain, for the Lord will not leave unpunished those who use his name in vain.

⁸ “Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy. ⁹ Six days you shall labor and do your work, ¹⁰ but the seventh day is the Sabbath in honor of the Lord your God. You shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male slave, nor your female slave, nor your animals, nor the foreigner who dwells with you. ¹¹ The Lord made the heavens and the earth and the seas and that which is in them in six days, but he rested the seventh day. Thus, the Lord blessed the Sabbath and declared it to be sacred.

¹² “Honor your father and your mother so that your days may be lengthened in the land that the Lord your God, will give you.

¹³ “You shall not kill.

¹⁴ “You shall not commit adultery.

¹⁵ “You shall not steal.

¹⁶ “You shall not give false witness against your neighbor.

¹⁷ “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male slave, nor his female slave, nor his oxen, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.”