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          DASV: Exodus 20    

1 Then God spoke all these words, saying,
2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the
land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 You shall have no other gods before me.
4 You shall not make for yourselves a graven image,
nor any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that
is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.
5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD
your God am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of
the fathers to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
6 and showing steadfast love to a thousand generations of those
who love me and keep my commandments.
7 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain; for the
LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work;
10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God.
On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter,
or your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the
resident foreigner who is within your gates.
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea and all that
is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed
the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.
12 Honor your father and mother that your days may be long in the land
the LORD your God gives you.
13 You shall not murder.
14 You shall not commit adultery.
15 You shall not steal.
16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
17 You shall not covet your neighbor's house, you shall not covet your
neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox,
or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."

18 Then all the people observed the thunderings and lightnings, and the
sound of the ram's horn, and the mountain smoking; and when the people
saw it, they trembled and stood at a distance.
19 So they said to Moses, "You speak to us, and we will listen, but
do not let God speak with us or we will die."
20 Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid, for God has come
to prove you, that his fear may be upon you so that you do not sin."
21 But the people stood at a distance and Moses drew near to the thick
darkness where God was.

22 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Tell this to the Israelites,
'You have seen for yourselves that I spoke with you from heaven.
23 You shall not make any gods of silver alongside me, you shall not
make for yourselves idols of silver or gold.
24 You shall make an altar of earth for me, and sacrifice on it your
burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep, and your oxen;
in every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to
you and I will bless you.
25 But if you make an altar of stone, you shall build it of uncut stones;
for if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it.
26 You shall not go up steps to my altar so that your nakedness
is not exposed on it.'"

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