CHAP. XX.
1, The ten Commandements are spoken by God on mount Sinai, 18, With thunders, lightnings, sound of the trumpet, &c. whereat the people are afraid. 20, Moses comforteth them. 22, God upon this occasion, againe forbiddeth them Idolatrie. 24, Of what sort the altar should be.
AND God spake all these words, say∣ing; I, Iehovah thy God which have [unspec 1] [unspec 2] brought thee out from the land of E∣gypt, from the house of servants. Thou shalt not have any other gods before my [unspec 3] face. Thou shalt not make unto thee a gra∣ven thing, or any likenesse of things which [unspec 4] are in the heavens above, or which are in the earth beneath, or which are in the waters be∣neath the earth. Thou shalt not bow downe [unspec 5] thy selfe to them neither serve them: for I Iehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquitie of the fathers upon the sonnes, upon the third and upon the fourth genera∣tion of them that hate me: And doing mer∣cy [unspec 6] unto thousands of them that love mee and of them that keepe my Commande∣ments. Thou shalt not take up the name of [unspec 7] Iehovah thy God in vaine, for Iehovah will not hold him guiltlesse, that shall take up his name in vaine. Remember thou the Sab∣bath [unspec 8] day, to sanctifie it. Six daies shalt thou [unspec 9] [unspec 10] labour, and shalt doe all thy worke. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to Iehovah thy God: in it thou shalt not doe any worke; thou, or thy son, or thy daughter, thy man servant, or thy woman servant, or thy cattel, or thy stranger which is within thy gates. For in sixe daies Iehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all which are in them; and rested in the seventh day: there∣fore Iehovah blessed the Sabbath day, and sanctified it. Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy dayes may bee prolonged upon the land which Iehovah thy God gi∣veth thee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adulterie. Thou shalt not steale. Thou shalt not answer a false wit∣nesse against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not cover thy neighbours house: thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife, or his man servant, or his woman servant, or his oxe, or his asse, or any thing which is thy neighbors. And all the people saw the voices, and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountaine smoaking: and the people saw, and removed away; and they stood a farre off. And they said unto Moses, Speake thou with us and we will heare; and let not God speake with us, lest we die. And Moses said unto the people; Feare not, for God is come for to tempt you; and that his feare may be before your faces, that you may not sinne. And the people stood afarre off: and [unspec] Moses drew neere unto the thicke darknesse where God was. And Iehovah said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the sons of Israel: you have seene that I have spoken with you out of the heavens. Yee shall not [unspec] make with me gods of silver, or gods of gold yee shall not make unto you. An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sa∣crifice thereon thy burnt offrings, and thy peace offrings, thy sheepe and thy oxen: In every place where I shall make the memori∣all of my name, I wil come unto thee, & I wil blesse thee. And if thou wilt make unto me [unspec] an altar of stones, thou shalt not build them of hewen stones: for if thou lift up thy toole upon it, thou hast polluted it. And thou shalt [unspec] not goe up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakednesse be not discovered thereon.