Exodus 20:2-7

English Standard Version

^2 (A)“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

^3 (B)“You shall have no other gods before^[a] me.

^4 (C)“You shall not make for yourself a carved 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 (D)You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am ^(E)a jealous God, ^(F)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ⁶ but showing steadfast love to thousands^[b] of those who love me and keep my commandments.

^7 (G)“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.