The Ten Commandments

         
 

You must have no other gods beside me.
You are not to make a carved image for yourself, nor the likeness of anything in the heavens above, or on the earth below, or in the waters under the earth. You must not worship or serve them; for I am the LORD your God, a jealous God, punishing children for the sins of their parents to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me. But I keep faith with thousands, those who love me and keep my commandments.

You shall not make wrong use of the name of the LORD your God; the LORD will not leave unpunished anyone who misuses his name.

Observe the sabbath day and keep it holy as the LORD your God commanded you. You have six days to labour and do all your work; but the seventh day there is a sabbath of the LORD your God; that day you must not do any work, neither you, nor your son or your daughter, your slave or your slave-girl, your ox, your donkey, or any of your cattle, or the alien residing among you, so that your slaves and slave-girls may rest as you do. Bear in mind that you were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and for that reason the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the sabbath day.

Honour your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you, so that you may enjoy long life, and it will be well with you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

Do not commit murder.
Do not commit adultery.
Do not steal.
Do not give baseless evidence against your neighbour.
Do not lust after your neighbour´s wife; do not covet your neighbour´s household, his land, his slave, his slave-girl, his ox, his donkey, or anything that belongs to him.



      
 

Source: The Revised English Bible, Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, 1997, Deuteronomy, 5, 7-21. The Revised English Bible was planned and directed by representatives of THE BAPTIST UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN, THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, THE COUNCIL OF CHURCHES FOR WALES, THE IRISH COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, THE LONDON YEARLY MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, THE METHODIST CHURCH OF GREAT BRITAIN, THE MORAVIAN CHURCH IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN ENGLAND AND WALES, THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN IRELAND, THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN SCOTLAND, THE SALVATION ARMY, THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, THE BIBLE SOCIETY, THE NATIONAL BIBLE SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND.

      
         
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