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Exodus 20:12-23 Modern English Version (MEV)

12. Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

13. You shall not murder.

14. You shall not commit adultery.

15. You shall not steal.

16. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

17. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.

18. All the people witnessed the thunder and the lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood at a distance.

19. They said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen, but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.”

20. Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to test you, so that the fear of Him may be before you so that you do not sin.”

21. The people stood a distance away as Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

22. Then the Lord said to Moses: Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, “You yourselves have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.

23. You shall not make gods of silver alongside Me or make gods of gold for yourselves.

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