⁸ “Remember ^(A)the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. ^9 (B)For six days you shall labor and do all your work, ¹⁰ but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord your God; on it ^(C)you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male slave or your female slave, or your cattle, or your ^[a]resident who ^[b]stays with you. ^11 (D)For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and everything that is in them, and He rested on the seventh day; for that reason the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

^15 (A)For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a ^(B)Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; ^(C)whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must be put to death.

²¹ “You shall work ^(A)six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest.

² “^(A)For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy day, ^(B)a Sabbath of complete rest to the Lord; ^(C)whoever does any work on it shall be put to death. ^3 (D)You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”

³ ‘^(A)For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation. You shall not do any work; it is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings.

¹³ For six days you ^[a]shall labor and do all your work, ¹⁴ but ^(A)the seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord your God; you shall not do any work that day, you or your son or your daughter, or your male slave or your female slave, or your ox, your donkey, or any of your cattle, or your ^[b]resident who ^[c]stays with you, so that your male slave and your female slave may rest as well as you. ^15 (B)And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to ^[d]celebrate the Sabbath day.

¹⁶ ‘^(C)Honor your father and your mother, just as the Lord your God has commanded you, ^(D)so that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well for you on the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

¹⁷ ‘^(E)You shall not murder.

¹⁸ ‘^(F)You shall not commit adultery.

¹⁹ ‘^(G)You shall not steal.

²⁰ ‘^(H)You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

²¹ ‘^(I)You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his male slave or his female slave, his ox, his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.’

Moses Interceded

²² “These words the Lord spoke to your whole assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, from the cloud, and from the thick darkness, with a great voice, and He added nothing more. ^(J)He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. ²³ And when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you approached me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders. ²⁴ You said, ‘Behold, the Lord our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire; we have seen today that God speaks with mankind, yet he lives. ^25 (K)Now then, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer, then we will die! ²⁶ For ^(L)who is there of ^[e]humanity who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? ^27 [f]Go near and listen to everything that the Lord our God says; then speak to us everything that the Lord our God speaks to you, and we will listen and do it.’

²⁸ “Now the Lord heard the sound of your words when you spoke to me, ^(M)and the Lord said to me, ‘I have heard the sound of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken. ^29 (N)If only they had such a heart in them, to fear Me and ^(O)keep all My commandments always, so that ^(P)it would go well with them and with their sons forever! ³⁰ Go, say to them, “Return to your tents.” ^31 (Q)But as for you, stand here by Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which you shall teach them, so that they may ^[g]follow them in the land which I am giving them to possess.’ ³² So you shall be careful to do just as the Lord your God has commanded you; ^(R)you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left. ^33 (S)You shall walk ^[h]entirely in the way which the Lord your God has commanded you, ^(T)so that you may live and that it may be well for you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you will possess.