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Exodus 20:8-18 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

8. Remember that you are to sanctify the day of the Sabbath.

9. For six days, you will work and accomplish all your tasks.

10. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. You shall not do any work in it: you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, your beast and the newcomer who is within your gates.

11. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all the things that are in them, and so he rested on the seventh day. For this reason, the Lord has blessed the day of the Sabbath and sanctified it.

12. Honor your father and your mother, so that you may have a long life upon the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.

13. You shall not murder.

14. You shall not commit adultery.

15. You shall not steal.

16. You shall not speak false testimony against your neighbor.

17. You shall not covet the house of your neighbor; neither shall you desire his wife, nor male servant, nor female servant, nor ox, nor donkey, nor anything that is his."

18. Then all the people considered the voices, and the lights, and the sound of the trumpet, and the smoking mountain. And being terrified and struck with fear, they stood at a distance,

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