12. “Respect your father and your mother, so that you may live a long time in the land that I am giving you.
13. “Do not commit murder.
14. “Do not commit adultery.
15. “Do not steal.
16. “Do not accuse anyone falsely.
17. “Do not desire another man's house; do not desire his wife, his slaves, his cattle, his donkeys, or anything else that he owns.”
18. When the people heard the thunder and the trumpet blast and saw the lightning and the smoking mountain, they trembled with fear and stood a long way off.
19. They said to Moses, “If you speak to us, we will listen; but we are afraid that if God speaks to us, we will die.”
20. Moses replied, “Don't be afraid; God has only come to test you and make you keep on obeying him, so that you will not sin.”
21. But the people continued to stand a long way off, and only Moses went near the dark cloud where God was.