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CHAP. XX.

1 The ten Commandements. 18 The people are afraid. 20 Moses comforteth them. 22 Idolatrie is forbidden. 24 Of what sort the Altar should be.

¹And God spake all these words, saying,

²I am the Lord thy God, which haue brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage:²

³Thou shalt haue no other Gods before me.

The tenne Commandements.

⁴Thou shalt not make vnto thee any grauen Image, or any likenesse of any thing that is in heauen aboue, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water vnder the earth.⁴

⁵Thou shalt not bow downe thy selfe to them, nor serue them: For I the Lord thy God am a iealous God, visiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children, vnto the thirde and fourth generation of them that hate me:

⁶And shewing mercy vnto thousands of them that loue mee, and keepe my Commandements.

⁷Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vaine: for the Lord will not holde him guiltlesse, that taketh his Name in vaine.⁷

⁸Remember the Sabbath day, to keepe it holy.

⁹Sixe dayes shalt thou labour, and doe all thy worke:⁹

¹⁰But the seuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not doe any worke, thou, nor thy sonne, nor thy daughter, thy man seruant, nor thy mayd seruant, nor thy cattell, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

¹¹For in sixe dayes the Lord made heauen and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seuenth day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and halowed it.¹¹

¹²¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy dayes may bee long vpon the land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee.¹²

¹³Thou shalt not kill.¹³

¹⁴Thou shalt not commit adultery.

¹⁵Thou shalt not steale.

¹⁶Thou shalt not beare false witnes against thy neighbour.

¹⁷Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours house, thou shalt not couet thy neighbours wife, nor his man seruant, nor his maid seruant, nor his oxe, nor his asse, nor any thing that is thy neighbours.¹⁷

¹⁸¶ And all the people saw the thundrings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountaine smoking: and when the people saw it, they remooued, and stood a farre off.¹⁸

¹⁹And they saide vnto Moses, Speake thou with vs, and wee will heare: But let not God speake with vs, lest we die.¹⁹

²⁰And Moses said vnto the people, Feare not: for God is come to prooue you, and that his feare may bee before your faces, that ye sinne not.

Diuers lawes, and ordinances.

²¹And the people stood afarre off, and Moses drew neere vnto the thicke darkenes, where God was.

²²¶ And the Lord said vnto Moses, Thus thou shalt say vnto the children of Israel, Yee haue seene that I haue talked with you from heauen.

²³Ye shall not make with me gods of siluer, neither shall ye make vnto you gods of gold.

²⁴¶ An Altar of earth thou shalt make vnto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheepe, and thine oxen: In all places where I record my Name, I will come vnto thee, and I will blesse thee.

²⁵And if thou wilt make mee an Altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewen stone: for if thou lift vp thy toole vpon it, thou hast polluted it.²⁵

²⁶Neither shalt thou goe vp by steps vnto mine Altar, that thy nakednesse be not discouered thereon.

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Exodus Chapter 20

² Deut.5.6. psal. 81.10. , Hebr. seruants.
⁴ Leuit.26. 1. psal. 97. 7.
⁷ Leuit. 19. 12. deut. 5. 11. matt. 5. 33.
⁹ Chap. 23. 12. ezech. 20.12. luke 13.14.
¹¹ Gene. 2.2.
¹² Deut. 5. 16. mat. 15.4. ephes. 6.2.
¹³ Matth. 5.21.
¹⁷ Rom. 7.7.
¹⁸ Hebr.12.18.
¹⁹ Deut. 5. 24. and 18. 16.
²⁵ Deut. 27. 5.iosh. 8. 31. , Hebr. build them with hewing.

* Courtesy of Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania