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Deuter­­onomy 5:2-16 Modern English Version (MEV)

2. The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

3. The Lord did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, we who are living now and here today.

4. The Lord talked with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire.

5. I stood between the Lord and you at that time to declare to you the word of the Lord; for you were afraid because of the fire and would not go up to the mountain. He said:

6. I am the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

7. You shall have no other gods before Me.

8. You shall not make yourself any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth;

9. you shall not bow down to them, nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

10. but showing mercy to thousands of them that love Me and keep My commandments.

11. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not exonerate anyone who takes His name in vain.

12. Keep the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, just as the Lord your God has commanded you.

13. Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

14. but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor the foreigner that is within your gates, so that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

15. Remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

16. Honor your father and your mother, just as the Lord your God has commanded you, that your days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

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