The Message

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            <div class="label">20</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1 v2" data-usfm="EXO.20.1+EXO.20.2"><span class="label">1-2</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content"> spoke all these words:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1 v2" data-usfm="EXO.20.1+EXO.20.2"><span class="content">I am </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content">, your God,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1 v2" data-usfm="EXO.20.1+EXO.20.2"><span class="content">who brought you out of the land of Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1 v2" data-usfm="EXO.20.1+EXO.20.2"><span class="content">out of a life of slavery.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v1 v2" data-usfm="EXO.20.1+EXO.20.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">No other gods, only me.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.20.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4 v5 v6" data-usfm="EXO.20.4+EXO.20.5+EXO.20.6"><span class="label">4-6</span><span class="content">No carved gods of any size, shape, or form of anything whatever, whether of things that fly or walk or swim. Don&#8217;t bow down to them and don&#8217;t serve them because </span><span class="it"><span class="content">I</span></span><span class="content"> am </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content">, your God, and I&#8217;m a most jealous God, punishing the children for any sins their parents pass on to them to the third, and yes, even to the fourth generation of those who hate me. But I&#8217;m unswervingly loyal to the thousands who love me and keep my commandments.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v4 v5 v6" data-usfm="EXO.20.4+EXO.20.5+EXO.20.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">No using the name of </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content">, your God, in curses or silly banter; </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content"> won&#8217;t put up with the irreverent use of his name.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.20.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8 v9 v10 v11" data-usfm="EXO.20.8+EXO.20.9+EXO.20.10+EXO.20.11"><span class="label">8-11</span><span class="content">Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Work six days and do everything you need to do. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content">, your God. Don&#8217;t do any work&#8212;not you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your servant, nor your maid, nor your animals, not even the foreign guest visiting in your town. For in six days </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content"> made Heaven, Earth, and sea, and everything in them; he rested on the seventh day. Therefore </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content"> blessed the Sabbath day; he set it apart as a holy day.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v8 v9 v10 v11" data-usfm="EXO.20.8+EXO.20.9+EXO.20.10+EXO.20.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.20.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Honor your father and mother so that you&#8217;ll live a long time in the land that </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content">, your God, is giving you.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.20.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.20.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">No murder.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.20.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.20.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">No adultery.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.20.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.20.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">No stealing.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.20.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.20.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">No lies about your neighbor.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.20.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">No lusting after your neighbor&#8217;s house&#8212;or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don&#8217;t set your heart on anything that is your neighbor&#8217;s.</span></span></div><div class="pc"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.20.17"><span class="content">* * *</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.20.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18 v19" data-usfm="EXO.20.18+EXO.20.19"><span class="label">18-19</span><span class="content">All the people, experiencing the thunder and lightning, the trumpet blast and the smoking mountain, were afraid&#8212;they pulled back and stood at a distance. They said to Moses, &#8220;You speak to us and we&#8217;ll listen, but don&#8217;t have God speak to us or we&#8217;ll die.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18 v19" data-usfm="EXO.20.18+EXO.20.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.20.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Moses spoke to the people: &#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid. God has come to test you and instill a deep and reverent awe within you so that you won&#8217;t sin.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.20.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.20.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The people kept their distance while Moses approached the thick cloud where God was.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.20.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22 v23 v24 v25 v26" data-usfm="EXO.20.22+EXO.20.23+EXO.20.24+EXO.20.25+EXO.20.26"><span class="label">22-26</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Give this Message to the People of Israel: &#8216;You&#8217;ve experienced firsthand how I spoke with you from Heaven. Don&#8217;t make gods of silver and gods of gold and then set them alongside me. Make me an earthen Altar. Sacrifice your Whole-Burnt-Offerings, your Peace-Offerings, your sheep, and your cattle on it. Every place where I cause my name to be honored in your worship, I&#8217;ll be there myself and bless you. If you use stones to make my Altar, don&#8217;t use dressed stones. If you use a chisel on the stones you&#8217;ll profane the Altar. Don&#8217;t use steps to climb to my Altar because that will expose your nakedness.&#8217;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pc"><span class="verse v22 v23 v24 v25 v26" data-usfm="EXO.20.22+EXO.20.23+EXO.20.24+EXO.20.25+EXO.20.26"><span class="content">* * *</span></span></div>
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GOD spoke all these words:
I am GOD, your God,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
out of a life of slavery.
No other gods, only me.
No carved gods of any size, shape, or form of anything whatever, whether of things that fly or walk or swim. Don’t bow down to them and don’t serve them because I am GOD, your God, and I’m a most jealous God, punishing the children for any sins their parents pass on to them to the third, and yes, even to the fourth generation of those who hate me. But I’m unswervingly loyal to the thousands who love me and keep my commandments.
No using the name of GOD, your God, in curses or silly banter; GOD won’t put up with the irreverent use of his name.
Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Work six days and do everything you need to do. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to GOD, your God. Don’t do any work—not you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your servant, nor your maid, nor your animals, not even the foreign guest visiting in your town. For in six days GOD made Heaven, Earth, and sea, and everything in them; he rested on the seventh day. Therefore GOD blessed the Sabbath day; he set it apart as a holy day.
Honor your father and mother so that you’ll live a long time in the land that GOD, your God, is giving you.
No murder.
No adultery.
No stealing.
No lies about your neighbor.
No lusting after your neighbor’s house—or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don’t set your heart on anything that is your neighbor’s.
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All the people, experiencing the thunder and lightning, the trumpet blast and the smoking mountain, were afraid—they pulled back and stood at a distance. They said to Moses, “You speak to us and we’ll listen, but don’t have God speak to us or we’ll die.”
Moses spoke to the people: “Don’t be afraid. God has come to test you and instill a deep and reverent awe within you so that you won’t sin.”
The people kept their distance while Moses approached the thick cloud where God was.

GOD said to Moses, “Give this Message to the People of Israel: ‘You’ve experienced firsthand how I spoke with you from Heaven. Don’t make gods of silver and gods of gold and then set them alongside me. Make me an earthen Altar. Sacrifice your Whole-Burnt-Offerings, your Peace-Offerings, your sheep, and your cattle on it. Every place where I cause my name to be honored in your worship, I’ll be there myself and bless you. If you use stones to make my Altar, don’t use dressed stones. If you use a chisel on the stones you’ll profane the Altar. Don’t use steps to climb to my Altar because that will expose your nakedness.’”
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Listen to Exodus 20