Sinai & The Law

And let the Priestes also which come to the Lord be sanctified, least the Lord destroy them.

And Moses sayde vnto the Lord, The people can not come vp into the mount Sinai: for thou hast charged vs, saying, Set markes on the mountaine, and sanctifie it.

And the Lord sayd vnto him, Go, get thee downe, and come vp, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the Priestes and the people breake their boundes to come vp vnto the Lord, least he destroy them.

So Moses went downe vnto the people, and tolde them.

Then God spake all these wordes, saying,

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

Thou shalt haue none other Gods before me.

Thou shalt make thee no grauen image, neither any similitude of things that are in heauen aboue, neither that are in the earth beneath, nor that are in the waters vnder the earth.

Thou shalt not bowe downe to them, neither serue them: for I am the Lord thy God, a ielous God, visiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children, vpon the third generation and vpon the fourth of them that hate me:

And shewing mercie vnto thousandes to them that loue me, and keepe my commandemets.

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

Remember the Sabbath day, to keepe it holy.

Sixe dayes shalt thou labour, and doe all thy worke,

But the seuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any worke, thou, nor thy sonne, nor thy daughter, thy man seruant, nor thy mayde, nor thy beast, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.

For in sixe dayes the Lord made the heauen and the earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seuenth day: therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy dayes may be prolonged vpon the land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee.

Thou shalt not kill.

Thou shalt not commit adulterie.

Thou shalt not steale.

Thou shalt not beare false witnes against thy neighbour.

Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours house, neither shalt thou couet thy neighbours wife, nor his man seruant, nor his mayde, nor his oxe, nor his asse, neyther any thing that is thy neighbours.

And all the people sawe the thunders, and the lightnings, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mountaine smoking and when the people saw it they fled and stoode afare off,

And sayde vnto Moses, Talke thou with vs, and we will heare: but let not God talke with vs, lest we die.

Then Moses sayde vnto the people, Feare not: for God is come to proue you, and that his feare may be before you, that ye sinne not.

So the people stoode afarre off, but Moses drew neere vnto the darkenes where God was.