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The Pre-face. AND God spake all these Words, say-ing, I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the Land of E-gypt, out of the House of Bon-dage.
I. Thou shalt have no o-ther Gods be-fore me.
II. Thou shalt not make un-to thee a-ny gra-ven I-mage, or a-ny like-ness of a-ny thing that is in Hea-ven a-bove, or
that is in the Earth be-neath, or that is in the Wa-ter un-der the Earth; thou shalt not bow down thy self to them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jea-lous God, vi-sit-ing the i-ni-qui-ty of the Fa-thers up-on the Chil-dren, un-to the third and fourth Ge-ne-ra-ti-on of them that hate me, and shew-ing Mer-cy un-to thou-sands of them that love me, and keep my com-mand-ments.
III. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guilt-less that ta-keth his Name in vain.
IV. Re-mem-ber the Sab-bath day to keep it ho-ly, six days shalt thou la-bour and do all thy work, but the se-venth day is the Sab-bath of the Lord thy God, in it thou shalt not do a-ny Work, thou, nor thy Son, nor thy Daugh-ter, thy Man-ser-vant, nor thy Maid-ser-vant, nor thy Cat-tel, nor thy Stran-ger that is with-in thy Gates, for in six days the Lord made Hea-ven and Earth, the Sea, and all that in them is, and rest-ed the se-venth day; where-fore the Lord bles-sed the sab-bath day, and hal-lowed it.
V. Ho-nour thy Fa-ther and thy Mo-ther, that thy days may be long upon the Land which the Lord thy God gi-veth thee.
VI. Thou shalt not kill.
VII. Thou shalt not com-mit A-dul-te-ry.
VIII. Thou shalt not steal.
IX. Thou shalt not bear false Wit-ness a-gainst thy Neigh-bour.
X, Thou shalt not co-vet thy Neigh-bours House, thou shalt not co-vet thy Neigh-bours Wife, nor his Man-ser-vant, nor his Maid-ser-vant, nor his Ox, nor his Ass, nor a-ny thing that is thy Neigh-bours.