New English Translation

Exodus 20:1-8 New English Translation (NET)

1. God spoke all these words:

2. “I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

3. “You shall have no other gods before me.

4. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below.

5. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me,

6. and showing covenant faithfulness to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

7. “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold guiltless anyone who takes his name in vain.

8. “Remember the Sabbath day to set it apart as holy.