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And Moses
called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O
Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak
in your ears this day, that ye may learn them,
and keep, and do them.
02 The Lord our God made a covenant with us
in Horeb.
03 The Lord made not this covenant with our
fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us
here alive this day.
04 The Lord talked with you face to face in
the mount out of the midst of the fire,
05 (I stood between the Lord and you at
that time, to shew you the word of the Lord: for
ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went
not up into the mount;) saying,
06 I am the Lord thy God, which brought
thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of
bondage.
07 Thou shalt have none other gods before
me.
08 Thou shalt not make 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 waters beneath the earth:
09 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto
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,
10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them
that love me and keep my commandments.
11 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.
12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as
the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.
13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all
thy work:
14 But 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, nor
thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine
ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy
stranger that is within thy gates; that thy
manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well
as thou.
15 And remember that thou wast a servant in
the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God
brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and
by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy
God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the
Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days
may be prolonged, and that it may go well with
thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth
thee.
17 Thou shalt not kill.
18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
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19 Neither shalt thou steal.
20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness
against thy neighbour.
21 Neither shalt thou desire thy
neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy
neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant,
or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any
thing that is thy neighbour's.
22 These words the Lord spake unto all your
assembly in the mount out of the midst of the
fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness,
with a great voice: and he added no more. And he
wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered
them unto me.
23 And it came to pass, when ye heard the
voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the
mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near
unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and
your elders;
24 And ye said, Behold, the Lord our God
hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and
we have heard his voice out of the midst of the
fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk
with man, and he liveth.
25 Now therefore why should we die? for
this great fire will consume us: if we hear the
voice of the Lord our God any more, then we shall
die.
26 For who is there of all flesh, that hath
heard the voice of the living God speaking out of
the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
27 Go thou near, and hear all that the Lord
our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all
that the Lord our God shall speak unto thee; and
we will hear it, and do it.
28 And the Lord heard the voice of your
words, when ye spake unto me; and the Lord said
unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of
this people, which they have spoken unto thee:
they have well said all that they have spoken.
29 O that there were such an heart in them,
that they would fear me, and keep all my
commandments always, that it might be well with
them, and with their children for ever!
30 Go say to them, Get you into your tents
again.
31 But as for thee, stand thou here by me,
and I will speak unto thee all the commandments,
and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou
shalt teach them, that they may do them in the
land which I give them to possess it.
32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the
Lord your God hath commanded you: ye shall not
turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
33 Ye shall walk in all the ways which the
Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may
live, and that it may be well with you, and that
ye may prolong your days in the land which ye
shall possess.
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