Study Desk

'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave unpunished the one who takes His name in vain.

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

but 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 resident who stays with you, so that your male slave and your female slave may rest as well as you.

'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 celebrate the Sabbath day.

'Honor your father and your mother, just as the LORD your God has commanded you, 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.

"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.

'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 who is there of humanity who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

'Go near and listen to everything that the LORD our God says; then speak to us everything that the LORD our God speaks to you, and we will listen and do it.'

"So you shall be careful to do just as the LORD your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left.

"You shall walk entirely in the way which the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and that it may be well for you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you will possess.

"Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which the LORD your God has commanded me to teach you, so that you may do them in the land where you are going over to take possession of it,

so that you, your son, and your grandson will fear the LORD your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.

"Now Israel, you shall listen and be careful to do them, so that it may go well for you and that you may increase greatly, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

"Hear, Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!

"And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

"Then it shall come about when the LORD your God brings you into the land that He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you, great and splendid cities which you did not build,

"You shall fear only the LORD your God; and you shall worship Him and swear by His name.

for the LORD your God who is in the midst of you is a jealous God; so follow Him, or else the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth.

"You shall not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested Him at Massah.