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Exodus 20:1-26 (AMP)

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¹ THEN GOD spoke all these words: ² I am the Lord your God, Who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ³ You shall have no other gods before or besides Me. ⁴ You shall not make yourself any graven image or any likeness of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; ⁵ You shall not bow down yourself to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me, ⁶ But showing mercy and steadfast love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments. ⁷ You shall not use or repeat the name of the Lord your God in vain ; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain. ⁸ remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy (withdrawn from common employment and dedicated to God). ⁹ Six days you shall labor and do all your work, ¹⁰ But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, your daughter, your manservant, your maidservant, your domestic animals, or the sojourner within your gates. ¹¹ For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. That is why the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it . ¹² Regard (treat with honor, due obedience, and courtesy) your father and mother, that your days may be long in the land the Lord your God gives you. ¹³ You shall not commit murder. ¹⁴ You shall not commit adultery. ¹⁵ You shall not steal. ¹⁶ You shall not witness falsely against your neighbor. ¹⁷ You shall not covet your neighbor's house, your neighbor's wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's. ¹⁸ Now all the people perceived the thunderings and the lightnings and the noise of the trumpet and the smoking mountain, and as looked they trembled with fear and fell back and stood afar off. ¹⁹ And they said to Moses, You speak to us and we will listen, but let not God speak to us, lest we die. ²⁰ And Moses said to the people, Fear not; for God has come to prove you, so that the fear of Him may be before you, that you may not sin. ²¹ And the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was. ²² And the Lord said to Moses, Thus shall you say to the Israelites, You have seen for yourselves that I have talked with you from heaven. ²³ You shall not make with Me ; gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves. ²⁴ An altar of earth you shall make to Me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record My name and cause it to be remembered I will come to you and bless you. ²⁵ And if you will make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone, for if you lift up a tool upon it you have polluted it. ²⁶ Neither shall you go up by steps to My altar, that your nakedness be not exposed upon it.


This passage relates to the following topic(s):
(v. 3) Idolatry - Ten Commandments - You shall have no other gods before me; do not make idols
(v. 4) Idolatry - Ten Commandments - You shall have no other gods before me; do not make idols
(v. 5) Jealousy / Envy - God is a jealous God
(v. 5) Idolatry - Ten Commandments - You shall have no other gods before me; do not make idols
(v. 7) Speaking / Gossip / Lying / Slander - You shall not misuse the name of the LORD
(v. 12) Family / Marriage / Husband / Wife - Ten Commandments - Honor your father and your mother
(v. 13) Murder - You shall not murder
(v. 14) Purity / Sexual Immorality / Adultery - Ten Commandments - You shall not commit adultery
(v. 15) Money / Greed / Debt / Wealth / Stealing / Covet - Ten Commandments - You shall not steal
(v. 16) Speaking / Gossip / Lying / Slander - Ten Commandments - You shall not give false testimony
(v. 17) Jealousy / Envy - Ten Commandments - You shall not envy your neighbor's wife, house or anything
(v. 20) Testing / Tests - Moses to Israelites - God has come to test you
(v. 20) Fear - Fear of God will keep you from sinning
(v. 20) Fear - Fear of God will keep us from sinning
(v. 20) Sin / Wickedness / Satan - Fear of God will keep us from sinning
(v. 23) Idolatry - Do not make any gods to be alongside the Lord

This passage relates to the following question(s):
(v. 4) Is the making of images forbidden or commanded? You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything
(v. 8) Should we observe the Sabbath? Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy
(v. 11) Why was the Sabbath observed? He rested on the seventh day
(v. 13) Is killing commanded or forbidden? You shall not murder
(v. 15) Does God command or forbid robbery? You shall not steal
(v. 16) Is lying forbidden or approved?

This passage is referenced in the following quiet time(s):
(v. 4) Called to Stand (2015-08-19)
(v. 4) Whose Voice? (2015-10-25)
(v. 5) Called to Stand (2015-08-19)
(v. 12) Jesus with People - Grateful Son (2009-01-18)
(v. 20) Fearing God - Respect for His Discipline (2011-05-29)

Definition(s):
Moses (Moh-ziz): taken out; drawn forth