1 Moses called all Israel together and said to them: "Hear, Israel, the statutes and rules I am speaking in your hearing today. Learn them and be careful to carry them out.
2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
3 It was not with our fathers that the LORD made this covenant, but with us, all of us who are here alive today.
4 The LORD spoke with you face to face on the mountain, from the middle of the fire.
5 At that time I was standing between the LORD and you to report to you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain. He said:
6 "'I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves.
7 "'You shall have no other gods before me.
8 "'You shall not make for yourself a carved image, any likeness of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters under the earth.
9 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God. I punish the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
10 but I show steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
11 "'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave unpunished anyone who takes his name in vain.
12 "'Keep the Sabbath day and make it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.
13 For six days you are to labor and do all your work,
14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall do no work at all: not you, nor your son or your daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your ox or your donkey or any of your animals, nor the sojourner who lives within your gates, so that your male and female servants may rest as you do.
15 Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a strong hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
16 "'Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
17 "'You shall not murder.
18 "'You shall not commit adultery.
19 "'You shall not steal.
20 "'You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
21 "'You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. You shall not crave your neighbor's house, his field, his male or female servant, his ox or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.'
22 "These are the words the LORD spoke with a loud voice to your whole assembly on the mountain from the middle of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness, and he added nothing more. He wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.
23 When you heard the voice from the middle of the darkness while the mountain was ablaze with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your elders came to me
24 and said, 'The LORD our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice from the middle of the fire. Today we have seen that God may speak with man and man may still live.
25 But now, why should we die? This great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer, we will die.
26 For what mortal has ever heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of fire, as we have, and lived?
27 You go near and listen to everything the LORD our God says. Then tell us everything the LORD our God tells you, and we will listen and do it.'
28 "The LORD heard what you said when you spoke to me, and the LORD said to me, 'I have heard what this people said to you. Everything they have said is good.
29 If only they always had such a heart to fear me and keep all my commandments, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!
30 Go and tell them to return to their tents.
31 But you stay here with me, and I will tell you all the commandment, the statutes and the rules, that you are to teach them, so that they may carry them out in the land I am giving them to possess.'
32 So be careful to do what the LORD your God has commanded you; do not turn aside to the right or to the left.
33 Walk in all the way the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and have long life in the land you are going to possess.