The Commandements in a Preface and ten Precepts.

And God spake all these words, saying: *

I am the Lord thy God which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

1. Thou shalt have no other Gods be∣fore * me.

II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven Image, or any likenesse of any thing that is in the Heaven above, or that is in the Earth beneath, or that is in the water under the Earth. Thou shalt not bow downe thy selfe to them, nor serve them: For I the Lord thy God am a jea∣lous God: visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the Children unto the third and fo•rth generation of them that hate Page  6 me. And shewing mercy unto thousands, of them that love me and keep my Com∣mandements.

III. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vaine: for the Lord will not hold him guiltlesse that taketh his Name in vaine.

IV. Remember the Sabbath day to keepe it holy: Six dayes shalt thou la∣bour and doe all thy worke. B•t the se∣venth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not doe any work, thou, nor thy Sonne, nor thy Daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattell, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. For in six dayes the Lord made Heaven and Earth, the Sea, and all that in them is, and rested the se∣venth day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed i•.

V. Honour thy Father and thy Mo∣ther: that thy dayes may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

VI. Thou shalt not kill.

VII Thou shalt not commit adultery.

VIII. Thou shalt not steale.

IX. Thou shalt not bear false witnesse against thy Neighbour.

X. Thou shalt not covet thy neigh∣bours Page  7 house, thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his Oxe, nor his Asse, nor any thing that is thy Neigh∣bours.