Exodus 20:1-6
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
The Ten Commandments
20 And God spoke all these words, saying,[a]
2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 “You shall have no other gods before[b] me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow down 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 the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
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- 20.1-17 The Ten Commandments, in their original form even briefer than here, are found in a different version in Deut 5.6-21.
- Exodus 20:3 Or besides
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