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World English Bible

Exodus 20 (WEBP)

[1] God spoke all these words, saying,
[2] “I am Yahweh 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 an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
[5] you 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,
[6] and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
[7] “You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.
[8] “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
[9] You shall labor six days, and do all your work,
[10] but 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;
[11] for 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.
[12] “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
[13] “You shall not murder.
[14] “You shall not commit adultery.
[15] “You shall not steal.
[16] “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
[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.”
[18] All 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.
[19] They said to Moses, “Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don’t let God speak with us, lest we die.”
[20] Moses 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.”
[21] The people stayed at a distance, and Moses came near to the thick darkness where God was.
[22] Yahweh 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.
[23] You shall most certainly not make gods of silver or gods of gold for yourselves to be alongside me.
[24] You 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.
[25] If 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.
[26] You shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.’

Exodus 20:1 After “God”, the Hebrew has the two letters “Aleph Tav” (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as a word, but as a grammatical marker.
Exodus 20:7 or, You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

Exodus 20 (KJVS)

[1] And God spake all these words, saying,
[2] I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
[3] Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
[4] Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
[5] thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, 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 of 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 taketh his name in vain.
[8] Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
[9] Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
[10] but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
[11] for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
[12] Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth 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, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
[18] And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
[19] And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
[20] And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
[21] And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
[22] And the Lord said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
[23] Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
[24] An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
[25] And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
[26] Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

Exodus 20:2 Heb. servants

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

Exodus 20 (BYZ)

[1] Καὶ () ἐλάλησεν () κύριος () πάντας () τοὺς () λόγους () τούτους () λέγων ()
[2] Ἐγώ () εἰμι () κύριος () ὁ () θεός () σου, () ὅστις () ἐξήγαγόν () σε () ἐκ () γῆς () Αἰγύπτου () ἐξ () οἴκου () δουλείας. ()
[3] Οὐκ () ἔσονταί () σοι () θεοὶ () ἕτεροι () πλὴν () ἐμοῦ. ()—
[4] οὐ () ποιήσεις () σεαυτῷ () εἴδωλον () οὐδὲ () παντὸς () ὁμοίωμα, () ὅσα () ἐν () τῷ () οὐρανῷ () ἄνω () καὶ () ὅσα () ἐν () τῇ () γῇ () κάτω () καὶ () ὅσα () ἐν () τοῖς () ὕδασιν () ὑποκάτω () τῆς () γῆς. ()
[5] Οὐ () προσκυνήσεις () αὐτοῖς () οὐδὲ () μὴ () λατρεύσῃς () αὐτοῖς· () ἐγὼ () γάρ () εἰμι () κύριος () ὁ () θεός () σου, () θεὸς () ζηλωτὴς () ἀποδιδοὺς () ἁμαρτίας () πατέρων () ἐπὶ () τέκνα () ἕως () τρίτης () καὶ () τετάρτης () γενεᾶς () τοῖς () μισοῦσίν () με ()
[6] καὶ () ποιῶν () ἔλεος () εἰς () χιλιάδας () τοῖς () ἀγαπῶσίν () με () καὶ () τοῖς () φυλάσσουσιν () τὰ () προστάγματά μου. ()—
[7] οὐ () λήμψῃ () τὸ () ὄνομα () κυρίου () τοῦ () θεοῦ () σου () ἐπὶ () ματαίῳ· () οὐ () γὰρ () μὴ () καθαρίσῃ () κύριος () τὸν () λαμβάνοντα () τὸ () ὄνομα () αὐτοῦ () ἐπὶ () ματαίῳ. ()—
[8] μνήσθητι () τὴν () ἡμέραν () τῶν () σαββάτων () ἁγιάζειν () αὐτήν. ()
[9] Ἓξ () ἡμέρας () ἐργᾷ () καὶ () ποιήσεις () πάντα () τὰ () ἔργα () σου· ()
[10] τῇ () δὲ () ἡμέρᾳ () τῇ () ἑβδόμῃ () σάββατα () κυρίῳ () τῷ () θεῷ () σου· () οὐ () ποιήσεις () ἐν () αὐτῇ () πᾶν () ἔργον, () σὺ () καὶ () ὁ () υἱός () σου () καὶ () ἡ () θυγάτηρ () σου, () ὁ () παῖς () σου () καὶ () ἡ () παιδίσκη () σου, () ὁ () βοῦς () σου () καὶ () τὸ () ὑποζύγιόν () σου () καὶ () πᾶν () κτῆνός () σου () καὶ () ὁ () προσήλυτος () ὁ () παροικῶν () ἐν () σοί. ()
[11] Ἐν () γὰρ () ἓξ () ἡμέραις () ἐποίησεν () κύριος () τὸν () οὐρανὸν () καὶ () τὴν () γῆν () καὶ () τὴν () θάλασσαν () καὶ () πάντα () τὰ () ἐν () αὐτοῖς () καὶ () κατέπαυσεν () τῇ () ἡμέρᾳ () τῇ () ἑβδόμῃ· () διὰ () τοῦτο () εὐλόγησεν () κύριος () τὴν () ἡμέραν () τὴν () ἑβδόμην () καὶ () ἡγίασεν () αὐτήν. ()—
[12] τίμα () τὸν () πατέρα () σου () καὶ () τὴν () μητέρα, () ἵνα () εὖ () σοι () γένηται, () καὶ () ἵνα () μακροχρόνιος () γένῃ () ἐπὶ () τῆς () γῆς () τῆς () ἀγαθῆς, () ἧς () κύριος () ὁ () θεός () σου () δίδωσίν () σοι. ()—
[13] οὐ () φονεύσεις. ()—
[14] οὐ () μοιχεύσεις. ()—
[15] οὐ () κλέψεις. ()—
[16] οὐ () ψευδομαρτυρήσεις () κατὰ () τοῦ () πλησίον () σου () μαρτυρίαν () ψευδῆ. ()—
[17] οὐκ () ἐπιθυμήσεις () τὴν () γυναῖκα () τοῦ () πλησίον () σου. () Οὐκ () ἐπιθυμήσεις () τὴν () οἰκίαν () τοῦ () πλησίον () σου () οὔτε () τὸν () ἀγρὸν () αὐτοῦ () οὔτε () τὸν () παῖδα () αὐτοῦ () οὔτε () τὴν () παιδίσκην () αὐτοῦ () οὔτε () τοῦ () βοὸς () αὐτοῦ () οὔτε () τοῦ () ὑποζυγίου () αὐτοῦ () οὔτε () παντὸς () κτήνους () αὐτοῦ () οὔτε () ὅσα () τῷ () πλησίον () σού () ἐστιν. ()
[18] Καὶ () πᾶς () ὁ () λαὸς () ἑώρα τὴν () φωνὴν () καὶ () τὰς () λαμπάδας () καὶ () τὴν () φωνὴν () τῆς () σάλπιγγος () καὶ () τὸ () ὄρος () τὸ () καπνίζον· φοβηθέντες () δὲ () πᾶς () ὁ () λαὸς () ἔστησαν () μακρόθεν. ()
[19] Καὶ () εἶπαν () πρὸς () Μωυσῆν () Λάλησον () σὺ () ἡμῖν, () καὶ () μὴ () λαλείτω () πρὸς () ἡμᾶς () ὁ () θεός, () μήποτε () ἀποθάνωμεν. ()
[20] Καὶ () λέγει () αὐτοῖς () Μωϋσῆς () Θαρσεῖτε· () ἕνεκεν () γὰρ () τοῦ () πειράσαι () ὑμᾶς () παρεγενήθη () ὁ () θεὸς () πρὸς () ὑμᾶς, () ὅπως () ἂν () γένηται () ὁ () φόβος () αὐτοῦ () ἐν () ὑμῖν, () ἵνα () μὴ () ἁμαρτάνητε. ()
[21] Εἱστήκει () δὲ () ὁ () λαὸς () μακρόθεν, () Μωϋσῆς () δὲ () εἰσῆλθεν () εἰς () τὸν () γνόφον, () οὗ () ἦν () ὁ () θεός. ()
[22] Εἶπεν () δὲ () κύριος () πρὸς () Μωυσῆν () Τάδε () ἐρεῖς () τῷ () οἴκῳ () Ιακωβ () καὶ () ἀναγγελεῖς () τοῖς () υἱοῖς () Ισραηλ () Ὑμεῖς () ἑωράκατε () ὅτι () ἐκ () τοῦ () οὐρανοῦ () λελάληκα () πρὸς () ὑμᾶς· ()
[23] οὐ () ποιήσετε () ἑαυτοῖς () θεοὺς () ἀργυροῦς () καὶ () θεοὺς () χρυσοῦς () οὐ () ποιήσετε () ὑμῖν () αὐτοῖς. ()
[24] Θυσιαστήριον () ἐκ () γῆς () ποιήσετέ () μοι () καὶ () θύσετε () ἐπ’ () αὐτοῦ () τὰ () ὁλοκαυτώματα () καὶ () τὰ () σωτήρια () ὑμῶν, () τὰ () πρόβατα () καὶ () τοὺς () μόσχους () ὑμῶν () ἐν () παντὶ () τόπῳ, () οὗ () ἐὰν () ἐπονομάσω () τὸ () ὄνομά () μου () ἐκεῖ, () καὶ () ἥξω () πρὸς () σὲ () καὶ () εὐλογήσω () σε. ()
[25] Ἐὰν () δὲ () θυσιαστήριον () ἐκ () λίθων () ποιῇς () μοι, () οὐκ () οἰκοδομήσεις () αὐτοὺς () τμητούς· τὸ () γὰρ () ἐγχειρίδιόν σου () ἐπιβέβληκας () ἐπ’ () αὐτούς, () καὶ () μεμίανται. ()
[26] Οὐκ () ἀναβήσῃ () ἐν () ἀναβαθμίσιν ἐπὶ () τὸ () θυσιαστήριόν () μου, () ὅπως () ἂν () μὴ () ἀποκαλύψῃς () τὴν () ἀσχημοσύνην () σου () ἐπ’ () αὐτοῦ. ()

Exodus 20:13 Originally verse 20:15.
Exodus 20:14 Originally verse 20:13.
Exodus 20:15 Originally verse 20:14.

Old Testament scripture quotations and versification from Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935). New Testament quotations are from the Byzantine Text (Guardian Press, LLC, Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, 2026). Both are in the public domain.