morning there was thunder, and lightning and a thick cloud upon the
mount, and the voice of the horn waxed exceeding loud, and all the
people that was in the host was afraid. And Moses brought the people
out of the tents to meet with God, and they stood under the hill. And
mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke: because the LORD descended down
upon it in fire. And the smoke thereof ascended up, as it had been the
smoke of a kiln, and all the mount was exceeding fearful. And the voice
of the horn blew and waxed louder, and louder. Moses spake, and God
answered him and that with a voice. And the LORD came down upon mount
Sinai, even in the top of the hill, and called Moses up into the top of
the hill. And Moses went up. And the LORD said unto Moses: go down and
charge the people that they prease not up unto the LORD for to see him,
and so many of them perish. And let the priests also which come to the
LORD's presence, sanctify them selves: lest the LORD smite them. Then
Moses said unto the LORD: the people can not come up in to mount Sinai,
for thou chargedest us saying: set marks about the hill and sanctify
it. And the LORD said unto him: away, and get thee down: and come up
both thou and Aaron with thee. But let not the priests and the people
presume for to come up unto the LORD: lest he smite them. And Moses
went down unto the people and told them.
Chapter .xx.
And God spake all these words and said: I am the LORD thy God, which
have brought thee out of the land of Egypt and out of the house of
bondage. Thou shalt have none other gods in my sight. Thou shalt make
thee no graven image, neither any similitude that is in heaven above,
either in the earth beneath, or in the water that is beneath the earth.
See that thou neither bow thyself unto them neither serve them: for I
the LORD thy God, am a jealous God, and visit the sin of the fathers
upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that
hate me: and yet shew mercy unto thousands among them that love me and
keep my commandments. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God
in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name
in vain. Remember the Sabbath day that thou sanctify it. Six days mayst
thou labour and do all that thou hast to do: but the seventh day is the
Sabbath of the LORD thy God, in it thou shalt do no manner work:
neither thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, neither thy manservant nor
thy maidservant, neither thy cattle neither yet the stranger that is
within thy gates. For in six days the LORD made both heaven and earth
and the sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day:
wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. Honour thy
father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the
LORD thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not break
wedlock. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt bear no false witness against
thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house: neither
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