1 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and observe to do them.
2 TheLordour God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
3 TheLordmade not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
4 TheLordspake with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
5 (I stood between theLordand you at that time, to shew you the word of theLord: for ye were afraid because of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,
6 I am theLordthy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me.
8 Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image,the likeness ofany form that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
9 thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I theLordthy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me;
10 and shewing mercy unto thousands, of them that love me and keep my commandments.
11 Thou shalt not take the name of theLordthy God in vain: for theLordwill not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
12 Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as theLordthy God commanded thee.
13 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
14 but the seventh day is a sabbath unto theLordthy God:in itthou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and theLordthy God brought thee out thence by a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore theLordthy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as theLordthy God commanded thee: that thy days may be long, and that it may go well with thee, upon the land which theLordthy God giveth thee.
17 Thou shalt do no murder.
18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
19 Neither shalt thou steal.
20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
21 Neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s wife; neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
22 These words theLordspake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them upon two tables of stone, and gave them unto me.
23 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain did burn with fire, that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
24 and ye said, Behold, theLordour God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth speak with man, and he liveth.
25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of theLordour God any more, then we shall die.
26 For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
27 Go thou near, and hear all that theLordour God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that theLordour God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.
28 And theLordheard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and theLordsaid unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken.
29 Oh that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
30 Go say to them, Return ye to your tents.
31 But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandment, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.
32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as theLordyour God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
33 Ye shall walk in all the way which theLordyour God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.