Exodus 20:1-26 CEV

[1] God said to the people of Israel: [2] I am the LORD your God, the one who brought you out of Egypt where you were slaves. [3] Do not worship any god except me. [4] Do not make idols that look like anything in the sky or on earth or in the ocean under the earth. [5] Don't bow down and worship idols. I am the LORD your God, and I demand all your love. If you reject me, I will punish your families for three or four generations. [6] But if you love me and obey my laws, I will be kind to your families for thousands of generations. [7] Do not misuse my name. I am the LORD your God, and I will punish anyone who misuses my name. [8] Remember that the Sabbath Day belongs to me. [9] You have six days when you can do your work, [10] but the seventh day of each week belongs to me, your God. No one is to work on that day-not you, your children, your slaves, your animals, or the foreigners who live in your towns. [11] In six days I made the sky, the earth, the oceans, and everything in them, but on the seventh day I rested. That's why I made the Sabbath a special day that belongs to me. [12] Respect your father and your mother, and you will live a long time in the land I am giving you. [13] Do not murder. [14] Be faithful in marriage. [15] Do not steal. [16] Do not tell lies about others. [17] Do not want anything that belongs to someone else. Don't want anyone's house, wife or husband, slaves, oxen, donkeys or anything else. [18] The people trembled with fear when they heard the thunder and the trumpet and saw the lightning and the smoke coming from the mountain. They stood a long way off [19] and said to Moses, "If you speak to us, we will listen. But don't let God speak to us, or we will die!" [20] "Don't be afraid!" Moses replied. "God has come only to test you, so that by obeying him you won't sin." [21] But when Moses went near the thick cloud where God was, the people stayed a long way off. [22] The LORD told Moses to say to the people of Israel: With your own eyes, you saw me speak to you from heaven. [23] So you must never make idols of silver or gold to worship in place of me. [24] Build an altar out of earth, and offer on it your sacrifices of sheep, goats, and cattle. Wherever I choose to be worshiped, I will come down to bless you. [25] If you ever build an altar for me out of stones, do not use any tools to chisel the stones, because that would make the altar unfit. [26] And don't build an altar that requires steps; you might expose yourself when you climb up.