16. 'Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you on the land which the Lord your God gives you.
17. 'You shall not murder.
18. 'You shall not commit adultery.
19. 'You shall not steal.
20. 'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
21. 'You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, and you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field or his male servant or his female servant, his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.'
22. "These words the Lord spoke to all your assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, of the cloud and of the thick gloom, with a great voice, and He added no more. 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 came near to 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 man, yet he lives.
25. 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 who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?