Exodus 20
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Exodus 20:3-17

3“1You shall have no other 2gods 3before Me.

4“4You shall not make for yourself 5an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. 56You shall not worship them nor serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a 7jealous God, 8inflicting the 9punishment of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6but showing 10favor to 11thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

7“12You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not 13leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.

8“Remember 14the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 915For six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord your God; on it 16you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male slave or your female slave, or your cattle, or your 17resident who 18stays with you. 1119For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and everything that is in them, and He rested on the seventh day; for that reason the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

12“20Honor your father and your mother, so that your 21days may be prolonged on the land which the Lord your God gives you.

13“22You shall not murder.

14“23You shall not commit adultery.

15“24You shall not steal.

16“25You shall not 26give false testimony against your 27neighbor.

17“28You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; 29you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male slave, or his female slave, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

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Notes

  1. 1. Exodus 20:3 Deut 6:14; 2 Kin 17:35; Jer 25:6; 35:15 ↩
  2. 2. Exodus 20:3 Ex 15:11; 20:23 ↩
  3. 3. Exodus 20:3 Or besides Me ↩
  4. 4. Exodus 20:4 Lev 19:4; 26:1; Deut 4:15-19; 27:15 ↩
  5. 5. Exodus 20:4 Or a carved image ↩
  6. 6. Exodus 20:5 Ex 23:24; Josh 23:7; 2 Kin 17:35 ↩
  7. 7. Exodus 20:5 Ex 34:14; Deut 4:24; Josh 24:19; Nah 1:2 ↩
  8. 8. Exodus 20:5 Ex 34:6, 7; Num 14:18, 33; Deut 5:9, 10; 1 Kin 21:29; Jer 32:18 ↩
  9. 9. Exodus 20:5 I.e., punishment for the wrongdoing ↩
  10. 10. Exodus 20:6 Or faithfulness ↩
  11. 11. Exodus 20:6 Deut 7:9 ↩
  12. 12. Exodus 20:7 Lev 19:12; Deut 6:13; 10:20 ↩
  13. 13. Exodus 20:7 Or hold him guiltless ↩
  14. 14. Exodus 20:8 Ex 23:12; 31:13-16; Lev 26:2; Deut 5:12 ↩
  15. 15. Exodus 20:9 Ex 34:21; 35:2, 3; Lev 23:3; Deut 5:13; Luke 13:14 ↩
  16. 16. Exodus 20:10 Neh 13:16-19 ↩
  17. 17. Exodus 20:10 Lit stranger ↩
  18. 18. Exodus 20:10 Lit is in your gates ↩
  19. 19. Exodus 20:11 Gen 2:2, 3; Ex 31:17 ↩
  20. 20. Exodus 20:12 Lev 19:3; Deut 27:16; Matt 15:4; 19:19; Mark 7:10; 10:19; Luke 18:20; Eph 6:2 ↩
  21. 21. Exodus 20:12 Deut 5:16, 33; 6:2; 11:8, 9; Jer 35:7 ↩
  22. 22. Exodus 20:13 Gen 9:6; Ex 21:12; Lev 24:17; Matt 5:21; 19:18; Mark 10:19; Luke 18:20; Rom 13:9; James 2:11 ↩
  23. 23. Exodus 20:14 Lev 20:10; Deut 5:18; Matt 5:27; 19:18; Rom 13:9 ↩
  24. 24. Exodus 20:15 Ex 21:16; Lev 19:11, 13; Matt 19:18; Rom 13:9 ↩
  25. 25. Exodus 20:16 Ex 23:1, 7; Deut 5:20; Matt 19:18 ↩
  26. 26. Exodus 20:16 Lit answer as a false witness against ↩
  27. 27. Exodus 20:16 Lev 19:18 ↩
  28. 28. Exodus 20:17 Deut 5:21; Rom 7:7; 13:9; Eph 5:3, 5 ↩
  29. 29. Exodus 20:17 Prov 6:29; Matt 5:28 ↩

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