Now Moses summoned all Israel and said to them:“Listen, Israel, to the statutes and ordinances which I am speaking today ¹for you to hear, so that you may learn them and be careful to do them. 2 The LORD our God made ^aa covenant with us at Horeb. 3 ^aThe LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, all ¹of us who are alive here today. 4 The LORD spoke with you ^aface to face at the mountain ^bfrom the midst of the fire, 5 while ^aI was standing between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD; ^bfor you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up on the mountain. ¹He said,

6 ‘^aI am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of ¹slavery.

7 ‘^aYou shall have no other gods besides Me.

8 ‘^aYou shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any ¹likeness of what is in heaven above ²or on the earth beneath ³or in the water under the earth. 9 You shall not worship them nor serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, ^ainflicting the ¹punishment of the fathers on the children, ²even on the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 10 but ^ashowing ¹favor to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

11 ‘^aYou shall not take the name of the LORD your God ¹in vain, for the LORD will not ²leave unpunished the one who takes His name in vain.

12 ‘^aKeep the Sabbath day to treat it as holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. 13 For six days you ¹shall labor and do all your work, 14 but ^athe 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 ¹resident who ²stays with you, so that your male slave and your female slave may rest as well as you. 15 ^aAnd 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 ¹celebrate the Sabbath day.

16 ‘^aHonor your father and your mother, just as the LORD your God has commanded you, ^bso 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.

17 ‘^aYou shall not murder.

18 ‘^aYou shall not commit adultery.

19 ‘^aYou shall not steal.

20 ‘^aYou shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

21 ‘^aYou 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.’

22 “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. ^aHe wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. 23 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. 24 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. 25 ^aNow 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! 26 For ^awho is there of ¹humanity who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? 27 ¹Go 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.’

28 “Now the LORD heard the sound of your words when you spoke to me, ^aand the LORD said to me, ‘I have heard the sound of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken. 29 ^aIf only they had such a heart in them, to fear Me and ^bkeep all My commandments always, so that ^cit would go well with them and with their sons forever! 30 Go, say to them, “Return to your tents.” 31 ^aBut as for you, stand here by Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which you shall teach them, so that they may ¹follow them in the land which I am giving them to possess.’ 32 So you shall be careful to do just as the LORD your God has commanded you; ^ayou shall not turn aside to the right or to the left. 33 ^aYou shall walk ¹entirely in the way which the LORD your God has commanded you, ^bso 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.