The Decalogue—Exodus 20:1–17
Sidebar to: What Makes the Ten Commandments Different?
And God spoke all these words, saying, 2I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3you shall have no other gods before me.
4You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under earth; 5you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
7You shall not take the name of the Lord your God vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
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