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1God spoke all these words, saying,Cross-references: Deut 4:33 · Deut 4:36 · Deut 5:4 · Deut 5:22 · Acts 7:38 · Acts 7:53

2“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.Cross-references: Gen 17:7 · Ex 10:1 · Ex 13:3 · Lev 19:36 · Lev 23:43 · Lev 26:1 · +16 more

3“You shall have no other gods before me.Cross-references: Ex 15:11 · Ex 20:23 · Deut 5:7 · Deut 6:5 · Deut 6:14 · Josh 24:18 · +20 more

4“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:Cross-references: Ex 32:1 · Ex 32:8 · Ex 32:23 · Ex 34:17 · Lev 19:4 · Lev 26:1 · +26 more

5you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh 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,Cross-references: Ex 23:24 · Ex 34:6 · Ex 34:14 · Lev 20:5 · Lev 26:1 · Lev 26:29 · +47 more

6and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.Cross-references: Deut 4:37 · Deut 5:29 · Deut 7:9 · Jer 32:39 · John 14:15 · John 14:21 · +5 more

7“You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.Cross-references: Lev 19:12 · Lev 24:11 · Deut 5:11 · Deut 10:20 · Josh 2:12 · Josh 2:17 · +12 more

8“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.Cross-references: Gen 2:3 · Ex 16:23 · Ex 23:12 · Ex 31:13 · Lev 19:3 · Lev 19:30 · +3 more

9You shall labor six days, and do all your work,Cross-references: Ex 23:12 · Ex 34:21 · Ex 35:2 · Lev 23:3 · Luke 13:14

10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh 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;Cross-references: Gen 2:2 · Ex 16:27 · Ex 23:9 · Ex 31:13 · Ex 34:21 · Num 15:32 · +6 more

11for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.Cross-references: Gen 1:1 · Gen 1:28 · Gen 2:2 · Ex 31:17 · Ps 95:4 · Mark 2:27 · +1 more

12“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.Cross-references: Ex 21:15 · Ex 21:17 · Lev 19:3 · Lev 19:32 · Deut 4:26 · Deut 4:40 · +22 more

13“You shall not murder.Cross-references: Gen 4:8 · Gen 9:5 · Ex 21:14 · Ex 21:20 · Ex 21:29 · Lev 24:21 · +20 more

14“You shall not commit adultery.Cross-references: Lev 18:20 · Lev 20:10 · Deut 5:18 · 2Sam 11:4 · 2Sam 11:27 · Prov 2:15 · +14 more

15“You shall not steal.Cross-references: Ex 21:16 · Lev 6:1 · Lev 19:11 · Lev 19:13 · Lev 19:35 · Deut 24:7 · +18 more

16“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.Cross-references: Ex 23:1 · Ex 23:6 · Lev 19:11 · Lev 19:16 · Deut 19:15 · 1Sam 22:8 · +13 more

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.”Cross-references: Gen 3:6 · Gen 14:23 · Gen 34:23 · Josh 7:21 · 1Sam 15:19 · 2Sam 11:2 · +31 more

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.Cross-references: Ex 19:16 · Ps 139:7 · Jer 23:23 · Heb 12:18

19They said to Moses, “Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don’t let God speak with us, lest we die.”Cross-references: Gen 32:30 · Ex 33:20 · Deut 5:5 · Deut 5:23 · Deut 18:16 · Acts 7:38 · +2 more

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.”Cross-references: Gen 20:11 · Gen 22:1 · Gen 22:12 · Ex 15:25 · Deut 4:10 · Deut 6:2 · +12 more

21The people stayed at a distance, and Moses came near to the thick darkness where God was.Cross-references: Ex 19:16 · Deut 5:5 · Deut 5:22 · 1Ki 8:12 · 2Chr 6:1 · Ps 18:9 · +4 more

22Yahweh 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.Cross-references: Deut 4:36 · Neh 9:13 · Heb 12:25

23You shall most certainly not make gods of silver or gods of gold for yourselves to be alongside me.Cross-references: Ex 20:3 · Ex 32:1 · Ex 32:31 · 1Sam 5:4 · 2Ki 17:33 · 2Ki 17:41 · +10 more

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.Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Lev 1:1 · Lev 3:1 · Num 6:24 · Deut 7:13 · Deut 12:5 · +27 more

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.Cross-references: Deut 27:5 · Josh 8:31

26You shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.’Cross-references: Lev 10:3 · Ps 89:7 · Eccl 5:1 · Heb 12:28 · 1Pet 1:16

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