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"The LORD spoke with you ^(C1)face to face at the mountain ^(C2)from the midst of the fire,

while ^(C1)I was standing between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD; ^(C2)for you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up on the mountain. ^(F1)He said,

'^(C1)I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of ^(F1)slavery.

'^(C1)You shall have no other gods besides Me.

'^(C1)You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any ^(F1)likeness of what is in heaven above ^(F2)or on the earth beneath ^(F2)or in the water under the earth.

'You shall not worship them nor serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, ^(C1)inflicting the ^(F1)punishment of the fathers on the children, ^(F2)even on the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

but ^(C1)showing ^(F1)favor to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

'^(C1)You shall not take the name of the LORD your God ^(F1)in vain, for the LORD will not ^(F2)leave unpunished the one who takes His name in vain.

'^(C1)Keep the Sabbath day to treat it as holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.

'For six days you ^(F1)shall labor and do all your work,

but ^(C1)the seventh day is a Sabbath of the LORD your God; you shall not do any work that day, you or your son or your daughter, or your male slave or your female slave, or your ox, your donkey, or any of your cattle, or your ^(F1)resident who ^(F2)stays with you, so that your male slave and your female slave may rest as well as you.

'^(C1)And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to ^(F1)celebrate the Sabbath day.

'^(C1)Honor your father and your mother, just as the LORD your God has commanded you, ^(C2)so that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well for you on the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

'^(C1)You shall not murder.

'^(C1)You shall not commit adultery.

'^(C1)You shall not steal.

'^(C1)You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

'^(C1)You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor desire your neighbor's house, his field, his male slave or his female slave, his ox, his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.'

"These words the LORD spoke to your whole assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, from the cloud, and from the thick darkness, with a great voice, and He added nothing more. ^(C1)He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

"And when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you approached me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders.

"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 mankind, yet he lives.

'^(C1)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!

'For ^(C1)who is there of ^(F1)humanity who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?