8. Do not make idols that look like anything in the sky or on earth or in the ocean under the earth.
9. Don't bow down and worship idols. I am the Lord your God, and I demand all your love. If you reject me and worship idols, I will punish your families for three or four generations.
10. But if you love me and obey my laws, I will be kind to your families for thousands of generations.
11. Do not misuse my name. I am the Lord your God, and I will punish anyone who misuses my name.
12. Show respect for the Sabbath Day—it belongs to me.
13. You have six days when you can do your work,
14. but the seventh day of the week belongs to me, your God. No one is to work on that day—not you, your children, your oxen or donkeys or any other animal, not even those foreigners who live in your towns. And don't make your slaves do any work.
15. This special day of rest will remind you that I reached out my mighty arm and rescued you from slavery in Egypt.
16. Respect your father and mother, and you will live a long and successful life in the land I am giving you.
17. Do not murder.
18. Be faithful in marriage.
19. Do not steal.
20. Do not tell lies about others.
21. Do not want to take anything that belongs to someone else. Don't want to take anyone's wife or husband, house, land, slaves, oxen, donkeys, or anything else.
22. When we were gathered on the mountain, the Lord spoke to us in a loud voice from the dark fiery cloud. The Lord gave us these commands, and only these. Then he wrote them on two flat stones and gave them to me.
23. When fire blazed from the mountain, and you heard the voice coming from the darkness, your tribal leaders came to me