THE 
          TEN COMMANDMENTS
              Exodus 
                20:1-17
               
              Then 
                God spoke all these words, saying, "I 
                  am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out 
                  of the house of slavery.
              I. 
                You shall have no other gods before Me.
              II. 
                You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is 
                in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall 
                  not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous 
                  God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third 
                  and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, but 
                    showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My 
                    commandments.
              III. 
                You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord 
                will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.
              IV. 
                Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six 
                  days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a 
                  sabbath of the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or 
                  your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your 
                  cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. For 
                    in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all 
                    that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed 
                    the sabbath day and made it holy.
              V. 
                Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in 
                the land which the Lord your God gives you.
              VI. 
                You shall not murder.
              VII. 
                You shall not commit adultery.
              VIII. 
                You shall not steal.
              IX. 
                You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
              X. 
                You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your 
                neighbor's wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox 
                or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
              "God's purpose in human government is that it serve as both a custodian 
                and an enforcer of His eternal law. It has been correctly noted that all the 
                thousands of good and practical laws passed by hundreds of legislative bodies 
                and rulers throughout history are in reality only amplifications of the Ten 
                Commandments."
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