17. Do not covet your neighbor’s house. Do not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
18. All the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain surrounded by smoke. When the people saw it they trembled and stood at a distance.
19. “You speak to us, and we will listen,” they said to Moses, “but don’t let God speak to us, or we will die.”
20. Moses responded to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, so that you will fear Him and will not sin.”
21. And the people remained standing at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.
22. Then the Lord told Moses, “This is what you are to say to the Israelites: You have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.
23. You must not make gods of silver to rival Me; you must not make gods of gold for yourselves.