² I am the Lord your God, the one who brought you out of Egypt where you were slaves.

³ Do not worship any god except me.

^4 (A) Do not make idols that look like anything in the sky or on earth or in the ocean under the earth. ^5 (B) Don't bow down and worship idols. I am the Lord your God, and I demand all your love. If you reject me, I will punish your families for three or four generations. ⁶ But if you love me and obey my laws, I will be kind to your families for thousands of generations.

^7 (C) Do not misuse my name.^[a] I am the Lord your God, and I will punish anyone who misuses my name.

^8 (D) Remember that the Sabbath Day belongs to me. ^9 (E) You have six days when you can do your work, ¹⁰ but the seventh day of each week belongs to me, your God. No one is to work on that day—not you, your children, your slaves, your animals, or the foreigners who live in your towns. ^11 (F) In six days I made the sky, the earth, the oceans, and everything in them, but on the seventh day I rested. That's why I made the Sabbath a special day that belongs to me.

^12 (G) Respect your father and your mother, and you will live a long time in the land I am giving you.

^13 (H) Do not murder.

^14 (I) Be faithful in marriage.

^15 (J) Do not steal.

^16 (K) Do not tell lies about others.

^17 (L) Do not desire to possess anything that belongs to another person—not a house, a wife, a husband, a slave, an ox, a donkey, or anything else.

¹² Don't make treaties with any of those people. If you do, it will be like falling into a trap. ^13 (A) Instead, you must destroy their altars and tear down the sacred poles^[a] they use in the worship of the goddess Asherah. ¹⁴ I demand your complete loyalty—you must not worship any other god! ¹⁵ Don't make treaties with the people there, or you will soon find yourselves worshiping their gods and taking part in their sacrificial meals. ¹⁶ Your men will even marry their women and be influenced to worship their gods.

^17 (B) Don't make metal images of gods.

^18 (C) Don't fail to observe the Festival of Thin Bread in the month of Abib.^[b] Obey me and eat bread without yeast for seven days during Abib, because that is the month you left Egypt.

^19 (D) The first-born males of your families and of your flocks and herds belong to me.

^20 (E) You can save the life of a first-born donkey^[c] by sacrificing a lamb; if you don't, you must break the donkey's neck. You must save every first-born son.

Bring an offering every time you come to worship.

^21 (F) Work for six days and rest on the seventh day, even during the seasons for plowing and harvesting. ^22 (G) Celebrate the Harvest Festival^[d] each spring when you start harvesting your wheat, and celebrate the Festival of Shelters^[e] each autumn when you pick your fruit.

²³ Your men must come to worship me three times a year, because I am the Lord God of Israel. ²⁴ As you advance, I will force the nations out of your land and enlarge your borders. Then no one will try to take your property when you come to worship me these three times each year.

^25 (H) When you sacrifice an animal on the altar, don't offer bread made with yeast. And don't save any part of the Passover meal for the next day.

^26 (I) I am the Lord your God, and you must bring the first part of your harvest to the place of worship.

Don't boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

⁶ I am the Lord your God, the one who brought you out of Egypt where you were slaves.

⁷ Do not worship any god except me.

^8 (A) Do not make idols that look like anything in the sky or on earth or in the ocean under the earth. ^9 (B) Don't bow down and worship idols. I am the Lord your God, and I demand all your love. If you reject me and worship idols, I will punish your families for three or four generations. ¹⁰ But if you love me and obey my laws, I will be kind to your families for thousands of generations.

^11 (C) Do not misuse my name.^[a] I am the Lord your God, and I will punish anyone who misuses my name.

^12 (D) Show respect for the Sabbath Day—it belongs to me. ^13 (E) You have six days when you can do your work, ¹⁴ but the seventh day of the week belongs to me, your God. No one is to work on that day—not you, your children, your oxen or donkeys or any other animal, not even those foreigners who live in your towns. And don't make your slaves do any work. ¹⁵ This special day of rest will remind you that I reached out my mighty arm and rescued you from slavery in Egypt.

^16 (F) Respect your father and mother, and you will live a long and successful life in the land I am giving you.

^17 (G) Do not murder.

^18 (H) Be faithful in marriage.

^19 (I) Do not steal.

^20 (J) Do not tell lies about others.

^21 (K) Do not desire to possess anything that belongs to another person—not a house, a wife, a husband, a slave, an ox, a donkey, or anything else.