Exodus 20
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The Ten Commandments
(Deuteronomy 5.1-21)
1God said to the people of Israel:
2I am the Lord your God, the one who brought you out of Egypt where you were slaves.
3Do not worship any god except me.
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Ex 34.17; Lv 19.4; 26.1; Dt 4.15-18; 27.14-26. Do not make idols that look like anything in the sky or on earth or in the ocean under the earth. 5#Ex 34.6,7; Nu 14.18; Dt 7.9,10. Don't bow down and worship idols. I am the Lord your God, and I demand all your love. If you reject me, I will punish your families for three or four generations. 6But if you love me and obey my laws, I will be kind to your families for thousands of generations.
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Lv 19.12. Do not misuse my name.#20.7 misuse my name: Probably includes breaking promises, telling lies after swearing to tell the truth, using the Lord's name as a curse word or a magic formula, and trying to control the Lord by using his name. I am the Lord your God, and I will punish anyone who misuses my name.
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Ex 16.23-30; 31.12-15. Remember that the Sabbath Day belongs to me. 9#Ex 23.12; 31.14,15; 34.21; 35.2; Lv 23.3. You have six days when you can do your work, 10but the seventh day of each week belongs to me, your God. No one is to work on that day—not you, your children, your slaves, your animals, or the foreigners who live in your towns. 11#Gn 2.1-3; Ex 31.17. In six days I made the sky, the earth, the oceans, and everything in them, but on the seventh day I rested. That's why I made the Sabbath a special day that belongs to me.
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Dt 27.14-26; Mt 15.4; 19.19; Mk 7.10; 10.19; Lk 18.20; Eph 6.2;
Eph 6.3. Respect your father and your mother, and you will live a long time in the land I am giving you.
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Gn 9.5,6; Lv 24.17; Mt 5.21; 19.18; Mk 10.19; Lk 18.20; Ro 13.9; Jas 2.11. Do not murder.
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Lv 20.10; Mt 5.27; 19.18; Mk 10.19; Lk 18.20; Ro 13.9; Jas 2.11. Be faithful in marriage.
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Lv 19.11; Mt 19.18; Mk 10.19; Lk 18.20; Ro 13.9. Do not steal.
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Ex 23.1; Mt 19.18; Mk 10.19; Lk 18.20. Do not tell lies about others.
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Ro 7.7; 13.9. 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)
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He 12.18,19. 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 19and 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.” 21But when Moses went near the thick cloud where God was, the people stayed a long way off.
Idols and Altars
22The Lord told Moses to say to the people of Israel:
With your own eyes you saw me speak to you from heaven. 23So you must never make idols of silver or gold to worship in place of me.#20.23 in place of me: Or “together with me.”
24Build an altar out of earth, and offer on it your sacrifices#20.24 sacrifices: The Hebrew text mentions two types of sacrifices: Sacrifices to please the Lord (traditionally called “whole burnt offerings”) and sacrifices to ask the Lord's blessing (traditionally called “peace offerings”). of sheep, goats, and cattle. Wherever I choose to be worshiped, I will come down to bless you. 25#Dt 27.5-7; Js 8.30-32. If you ever build an altar for me out of stones, do not use any tools to chisel the stones, because that would make the altar unfit for use in worship. 26And don't build an altar that requires steps; you might expose yourself when you climb up.
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Exodus 20
20
The Ten Commandments
(Deuteronomy 5.1-21)
1And God spake all these words, saying,
2I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
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Exod 34.17; Lev 19.4; 26.1; Deut 4.15-18; 27.15. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5#Exod 34.6,7; Num 14.18; Deut 7.9,10. thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 6and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
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Lev 19.12. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
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Exod 16.23-30; 31.12-14. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9#Exod 23.12; 31.15; 34.21; 35.2; Lev 23.3. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: 10but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11#Gen 2.1-3; Exod 31.17. for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
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Deut 27.16; Matt 15.4; 19.19; Mark 7.10; 10.19; Luke 18.20; Eph 6.2;
Eph 6.3. Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
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Gen 9.6; Lev 24.17; Matt 5.21; 19.18; Mark 10.19; Luke 18.20; Rom 13.9; Jas 2.11. Thou shalt not kill.
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Lev 20.10; Matt 5.27; 19.18; Mark 10.19; Luke 18.20; Rom 13.9; Jas 2.11. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
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Lev 19.11; Matt 19.18; Mark 10.19; Luke 18.20; Rom 13.9. Thou shalt not steal.
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Exod 23.1; Matt 19.18; Mark 10.19; Luke 18.20. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
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Rom 7.7; 13.9. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
The People's Fear
(Deuteronomy 5.22-33)
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Heb 12.18,19. And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. 19And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die. 20And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
21And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was. 22And the Lord said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. 23Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold. 24An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee. 25#Deut 27.5-7; Josh 8.31. And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. 26Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
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