1. Moses called together all the Israelites and said to them, “Israelites, listen to the laws and rules that I tell you today. Learn these laws and be sure to obey them.
2. The Lord our God made an agreement with us at Mount Horeb.
3. The Lord did not make this agreement with our ancestors, but with us—yes, with all of us who are alive here today.
4. The Lord spoke with you face to face at that mountain. He spoke to you from the fire.
5. But you were afraid of the fire. And you did not go up the mountain. So I stood between you and the Lord to tell you what the Lord said. He said,
6. ‘I am the Lord your God. I am the one who freed you from Egypt, where you were slaves.
7. ‘You must not worship any other gods except me.
8. ‘You must not make any idols. Don’t make any statues or pictures of anything up in the sky or of anything on the earth or of anything down in the water.