The Ten Commandments
According to the Only Catholic Bible, DR 1609
The
Book of Exodus
The Second Book of MOSES is called Exodus,
from the Greek word Exodos, which signigies going out: because it contains
the history of the going out of the children of Israel out of Egypt.
The Hebrews, from the words with which it begins. call it Veelle Semoth:
These are the names. It contains transactions for 145 years; that
is, from the death of Joseph to the erecting of the
tabernacle.
Chapter 20
The ten commandments.
1 And the Lord spoke all these words:
2 I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out
of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of
any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those
things that are in the waters under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God,
mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children,
unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands to them that love me, and keep my
commandments.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the
Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his
God in vain.
8 Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.
10 But on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou
shalt do no work on it, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy
manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy beast, nor the stranger that is
within thy gates.
11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all
things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord
blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.
12 Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayest be longlived upon
the land which the Lord thy God will give thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house: neither shalt thou
desire his wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his
ass, nor any thing that is his.
18 And all the people saw the voices and the flames, and the sound of
the trumpet, and the mount smoking: and being terrified and struck with
fear, they stood afar off,
19 Saying to Moses: Speak thou to us, and we will hear: let not the
Lord speak to us, lest we die.
20 And Moses said to the people: Fear not: for God is come to prove
you, and that the dread of him might be in you, and you should not sin.
21 And the people stood afar off. But Moses went to the dark cloud
wherein God was.
22 And the Lord said to Moses: Thus shalt thou say to the children of
Israel: You have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.
23 You shall not make gods of silver, nor shall you make to yourselves
gods of gold.
24 You shall make an altar of earth unto me, and you shall offer upon
it your holocausts and peace offerings, your sheep and oxen, in every
place where the memory of my name shall be: I will come to thee, and will
bless thee.
25 And if thou make an altar of stone unto me, thou shalt not build it
of hewn stones: for if thou lift up a tool upon it, it shall be defiled.
26 Thou shalt not go up by steps unto my altar, lest thy nakedness be
discovered.
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