13. You may work and get everything done during six days each week,
14. but the seventh day is a day of rest to honor the Lord your God. On that day no one may do any work: not you, your son or daughter, your male or female slaves, your ox, your donkey, or any of your animals, or the foreigners living in your cities. That way your servants may rest as you do.
15. Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out of there by his great power and strength. So the Lord your God has commanded you to rest on the Sabbath day.
16. “Honor your father and your mother as the Lord your God has commanded you. Then you will live a long time, and things will go well for you in the land that the Lord your God is going to give you.
17. “You must not murder anyone.
18. “You must not be guilty of adultery.
19. “You must not steal.
20. “You must not tell lies about your neighbor.
21. “You must not want to take your neighbor’s wife. You must not want to take your neighbor’s house or land, his male or female slaves, his ox or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
22. The Lord spoke these commands to all of you on the mountain in a loud voice out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness; he did not say anything else. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets, and he gave them to me.
23. When you heard the voice from the darkness, as the mountain was blazing with fire, all the leaders of your tribes and your elders came to me.
24. And you said, “The Lord our God has shown us his glory and majesty, and we have heard his voice from the fire. Today we have seen that a person can live even if God speaks to him.
25. But now, we will die! This great fire will burn us up, and we will die if we hear the Lord our God speak anymore.
26. No human being has ever heard the living God speaking from a fire and still lived, but we have.
27. Moses, you go near and listen to everything the Lord our God says. Then you tell us what the Lord our God tells you, and we will listen and obey.”
28. The Lord heard what you said to me, and he said to me, “I have heard what the people said to you. Everything they said was good.