Exodus 20
World English Bible (WEB) • 26 verses
1God spoke all these words, saying,
RelatedDeuteronomy 5:22 · Deuteronomy 5:4 · Deuteronomy 4:36 · Acts 7:38 · Deuteronomy 4:33 · Acts 7:53
2“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
RelatedDeuteronomy 5:6 · Hosea 13:4 · Psalms 81:10 · Leviticus 26:13 · Exodus 13:3 · Leviticus 19:36
3“You shall have no other gods before me.
RelatedDeuteronomy 5:7 · Matthew 4:10 · Psalms 81:9 · Isaiah 46:9 · Deuteronomy 6:14 · Deuteronomy 6:5
4“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
RelatedDeuteronomy 5:8 · Leviticus 26:1 · Deuteronomy 4:15-19 · Psalms 97:7 · Leviticus 19:4 · Deuteronomy 27:15
5you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
RelatedDeuteronomy 5:9 · Numbers 14:18 · Deuteronomy 4:24 · Exodus 34:14 · Joshua 24:19 · Deuteronomy 6:15
6and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
7“You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.
RelatedDeuteronomy 5:11 · Leviticus 19:12 · James 5:12 · Matthew 5:33-37 · Psalms 50:14-16 · Jeremiah 4:2
8“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
RelatedLeviticus 26:2 · Leviticus 19:3 · Genesis 2:3 · Exodus 31:13-16 · Leviticus 23:3 · Leviticus 19:30
9You shall labor six days, and do all your work,
10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;
RelatedDeuteronomy 5:14-15 · Exodus 34:21 · Exodus 16:27-28 · Numbers 15:32-36 · Deuteronomy 24:14-22 · Luke 23:56
11for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.
12“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
RelatedEphesians 6:1-3 · Colossians 3:20 · Deuteronomy 5:16 · Mark 7:10 · Proverbs 23:22-25 · Leviticus 19:3
13“You shall not murder.
RelatedRomans 13:9 · Deuteronomy 5:17 · Genesis 9:5-6 · Matthew 5:21-22 · Exodus 21:14 · Matthew 19:18
14“You shall not commit adultery.
RelatedHebrews 13:4 · Deuteronomy 5:18 · Romans 7:2-3 · Romans 13:9 · Leviticus 20:10 · Revelation 21:8
15“You shall not steal.
RelatedRomans 13:9 · Ephesians 4:28 · Leviticus 19:11 · Leviticus 19:13 · Matthew 19:18 · 1 Corinthians 6:10
16“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
RelatedProverbs 19:5 · Matthew 19:18 · Psalms 15:3 · Exodus 23:1 · Deuteronomy 19:15-21 · Matthew 26:59-60
17“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
18All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.
19They said to Moses, “Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don’t let God speak with us, lest we die.”
RelatedDeuteronomy 18:16 · Acts 7:38 · Exodus 33:20 · Deuteronomy 5:23-27 · Galatians 3:19 · Genesis 32:30
20Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won’t sin.”
RelatedDeuteronomy 13:3 · Proverbs 3:7 · Isaiah 8:13 · 1 Samuel 12:20 · Proverbs 16:6 · Genesis 22:1
21The people stayed at a distance, and Moses came near to the thick darkness where God was.
22The LORD said to Moses, “This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
23You shall most certainly not make gods of silver or gods of gold for yourselves to be alongside me.
RelatedEzekiel 20:39 · 2 Kings 17:33 · Zephaniah 1:5 · 1 Corinthians 10:21-22 · Exodus 20:3-5 · Exodus 32:31
24You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.
RelatedDeuteronomy 12:5 · Psalms 132:13-14 · 2 Chronicles 6:6 · 1 Kings 9:3 · Deuteronomy 12:11 · 2 Chronicles 7:16
25If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.
26You shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.’
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