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Exodus 20:8-24 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

8. Remember that the Sabbath Day belongs to me.

9. You have six days when you can do your work,

10. but the seventh day of each week belongs to me, your God. No one is to work on that day—not you, your children, your slaves, your animals, or the foreigners who live in your towns.

11. In six days I made the sky, the earth, the seas, and everything in them, but on the seventh day I rested. That's why I made the Sabbath a special day that belongs to me.

12. Respect your father and your mother, and you will live a long time in the land I am giving you.

13. Do not murder.

14. Be faithful in marriage.

15. Do not steal.

16. Do not tell lies about others.

17. Do not want to take anything that belongs to someone else. Don't want to take anyone's house, wife or husband, slaves, oxen, donkeys or anything else.

18. The people trembled with fear when they heard the thunder and the trumpet and saw the lightning and the smoke coming from the mountain. They stood a long way off

19. and said to Moses, “If you speak to us, we will listen. But don't let God speak to us, or we will die!”

20. “Don't be afraid!” Moses replied. “God has come only to test you, so that by obeying him you won't sin.”

21. But when Moses went near the thick cloud where God was, the people stayed a long way off.

22. The Lord told Moses to say to the people of Israel:With your own eyes, you saw me speak to you from heaven.

23. So you must never make idols of silver or gold to worship in place of me.

24. Build an altar out of earth, and offer on it your sacrifices of sheep, goats, and cattle. Wherever I choose to be worshipped, I will come down to bless you.

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