Exodus 20:8-26
English Standard Version
Chapter 20
8"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10but 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, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. 11For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
18Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off
19and said to Moses, "You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die."
20Moses said to the people, "Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin."
21The people stood far off, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
22And the Lord said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the people of Israel: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have talked with you from heaven.
23You shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.
24An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and bless you.
25If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it.
26And you shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not exposed on it.’
