Exodus 20 (NET)

Exodus 20:1¹God spoke all these words:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 5:22Deut 5:4Deut 4:36Acts 7:38Deut 4:33Acts 7:53

Exodus 20:2²“I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 5:6Hos 13:4Lev 26:13Ps 81:10Exod 13:3Lev 19:36Deut 26:6-8Gen 17:7-8Deut 7:8Deut 5:15

Exodus 20:3³“You shall have no other gods before me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 5:7Matt 4:10Ps 81:9Isa 46:9Deut 6:14Deut 6:5Jer 25:6Josh 24:18-241 John 5:20-21Jer 35:15

Exodus 20:4⁴“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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 5:8Lev 26:1Deut 4:15-19Ps 97:7Lev 19:4Acts 17:29Deut 27:15Rev 16:2Ps 115:4-8Jer 10:14-16

Exodus 20:5⁵You 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,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 5:9Num 14:18Deut 4:24Exod 34:14Josh 24:19Deut 6:15Exod 34:6-7Isa 65:6-7Jer 32:18Josh 23:7

Exodus 20:6⁶and showing covenant faithfulness to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 7:91 John 5:3John 14:21Jer 32:39-40Acts 2:39Deut 5:29John 14:15Rom 11:28-29Deut 4:371 John 4:19

Exodus 20:7⁷“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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 5:11Lev 19:12Jas 5:12Matt 5:33-37Ps 50:14-16Jer 4:2Josh 9:20Matt 26:63-64Heb 6:16-17Josh 2:12

Exodus 20:8⁸“Remember the Sabbath day to set it apart as holy.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 26:2Lev 19:3Exod 31:13-16Gen 2:3Lev 23:3Lev 19:30Exod 16:23-30Exod 23:12Isa 56:4-6

Exodus 20:9⁹For six days you may labor and do all your work,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 13:14Exod 23:12Exod 34:21Lev 23:3Exod 35:2

Exodus 20:10¹⁰but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or the resident foreigner who is in your gates.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 5:14-15Exod 34:21Exod 16:27-28Num 15:32-36Deut 24:14-22Exod 23:9-12Exod 31:13Gen 2:2-3Luke 23:56Neh 10:31

Exodus 20:11¹¹For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 1:1-2Gen 2:2-3Exod 31:17Mark 2:27-28Ps 95:4-7Gen 1:28

Exodus 20:12¹²“Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 6:1-3Col 3:20Deut 5:16Mark 7:10Prov 23:22-25Lev 19:3Prov 30:17Prov 1:8-9Exod 21:17Luke 18:20

Exodus 20:13¹³“You shall not murder.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 13:9Deut 5:17Gen 9:5-6Exod 21:14Matt 5:21-22Deut 19:11-13Jas 2:11Lev 24:21Matt 19:181 John 3:12-15

Exodus 20:14¹⁴“You shall not commit adultery.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 13:4Deut 5:18Rom 7:2-3Rom 13:9Lev 20:10Matt 5:27-28Rev 21:8Lev 18:20Mark 10:11-12Jer 5:8-9

Exodus 20:15¹⁵“You shall not steal.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 13:9Eph 4:28Lev 19:11Lev 19:13Matt 19:181 Cor 6:10Lev 6:1-7Prov 1:13-15Amos 8:4-6Deut 24:7

Exodus 20:16¹⁶“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 19:5Matt 19:18Ps 15:3Exod 23:1Deut 19:15-21Matt 26:59-60Prov 10:18Acts 6:13Eph 4:31Exod 23:6-7

Exodus 20:17¹⁷“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 13:9Luke 12:15Heb 13:5Eph 5:5Col 3:5Eph 5:3Rom 7:71 Cor 6:10Jer 5:8Mic 2:2

Exodus 20:18¹⁸All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking—and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 19:16-18Heb 12:18-19Jer 23:23Ps 139:7-8

Exodus 20:19¹⁹They said to Moses, “You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 18:16Acts 7:38Deut 5:23-27Exod 33:20Deut 5:5Gal 3:19Gen 32:30Heb 12:19

Exodus 20:20²⁰Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you so that you do not sin.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 13:3Prov 3:71 Sam 12:20Isa 8:13Deut 8:2Gen 22:1Job 28:28Prov 16:6Deut 10:12Deut 4:10

Exodus 20:21²¹The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:12Ps 97:2Ps 18:91 Tim 6:162 Chr 6:1Deut 5:5Exod 19:16-17Ps 104:2Ps 18:12Deut 5:22

Exodus 20:22²²The Lord said to Moses, “Thus you will tell the Israelites: ‘You yourselves have seen that I have spoken with you from heaven.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 9:13Deut 4:36

Exodus 20:23²³You must not make gods of silver alongside me, nor make gods of gold for yourselves.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 20:392 Kgs 17:33Zeph 1:51 Cor 10:21-221 John 5:20-21Exod 20:3-5Exod 32:31Rev 22:151 Sam 5:4-52 Cor 6:14-16

Exodus 20:24²⁴“‘You must make for me an altar made of earth, and you will sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I cause my name to be honored I will come to you and I will bless you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 12:5Ps 132:13-142 Chr 6:61 Kgs 9:32 Chr 7:16Deut 12:11Deut 16:11Deut 26:22 Chr 12:13Ezra 6:12

Exodus 20:25²⁵If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it of stones shaped with tools, for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 27:5-6Josh 8:31

Exodus 20:26²⁶And you must not go up by steps to my altar, so that your nakedness is not exposed.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 1:16Eccl 5:1Heb 12:28-29Lev 10:3Ps 89:7