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LORD your God, am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children to the third and
fourth generations of those who 5:22 and He added no more. These Ten
hate Me, but showing mercy to Commandments alone were identified as
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thousands, to those who love Me direct quotations by God.The rest of the stip-
and keep My commandments. ulations of the covenant were given to Moses,
11 ‘You shall not take the name of the who in turn gave them to the Israelites.These
LORD your God in vain, for the basic rules, which reflect God’s character, con-
tinue to be a means by which God reveals the
LORD will not hold him guiltless sinful deeds of the flesh (see Rom. 7:7–14; Gal.
who takes His name in vain. 3:19–24; 5:13–26). They are also a holy stan-
12 ‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it dard for conduct that the saved live by
holy, as the LORD your God through the Spirit’s power, with the exception
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commanded you. Six days you of keeping the Sabbath (see Col. 2:16,17).
shall labor and do all your work,
14 but the seventh day is the Sab-
bath of the LORD your God. In it was burning with fire, that you came near to
you shall do no work: you, nor me, all the heads of your tribes and your el-
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your son, nor your daughter, nor ders. And you said: ‘Surely the LORD our God
your male servant, nor your female has shown us His glory and His greatness,
servant, nor your ox, nor your and we have heard His voice from the midst of
donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor the fire. We have seen this day that God
your stranger who is within your speaks with man; yet he still lives. Now there-
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gates, that your male servant and fore, why should we die? For this great fire
your female servant may rest as will consume us; if we hear the voice of the
well as you. And remember that LORD our God anymore, then we shall die.
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you were a slave in the land of 26 For who is there of all flesh who has heard
Egypt, and the LORD your God the voice of the living God speaking from the
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brought you out from there by a midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? You
mighty hand and by an out- go near and hear all that the LORD our God
stretched arm; therefore the LORD may say, and tell us all that the LORD our God
your God commanded you to keep says to you, and we will hear and do it.’
the Sabbath day. 28 “Then the LORD heard the voice of your
16 ‘Honor your father and your mother, as words when you spoke to me, and the LORD said
the LORD your God has com- to me: ‘I have heard the voice of the words of
manded you, that your days may this people which they have spoken to you.
be long, and that it may be well They are right in all that they have spoken.
with you in the land which the 29 Oh, that they had such a heart in them that
LORD your God is giving you. they would fear Me and always keep all My
17 ‘You shall not murder. commandments, that it might be well with them
18 ‘You shall not commit adultery. and with their children forever! Go and say to
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19 ‘You shall not steal. them, “Return to your tents.” But as for you,
20 ‘You shall not bear false witness against stand here by Me, and I will speak to you all the
your neighbor. commandments, the statutes, and the judg-
21 ‘You shall not covet your neighbor’s ments which you shall teach them, that they
wife; and you shall not desire your may observe them in the land which I am giving
neighbor’s house, his field, his them to possess.’
male servant, his female servant, 32 “Therefore you shall be careful to do as the
his ox, his donkey, or anything LORD your God has commanded you; you shall
that is your neighbor’s.’ not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
22 “These words the LORD spoke to all your 33 You shall walk in all the ways which the LORD
assembly, in the mountain from the midst of your God has commanded you, that you may live
the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, and that it may be well with you, and that you may
with a loud voice; and He added no more. And prolong your days in the land which you shall
He wrote them on two tablets of stone and possess.
gave them to me. “Now this is the commandment, and these
23 “So it was, when you heard the voice from 6 are the statutes and judgments which the
the midst of the darkness, while the mountain LORD your God has commanded to teach you,

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