A guide for life with God and neighbor
The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments join faithfulness toward God with responsibility toward other people. The complete biblical passages are shown because Christian traditions group and number the commands differently.
Mannora translation
Biblical text
Exodus 20:1–17
1God spoke all these words:
2I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
3You must have no other gods before me.
4You must not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of what is in heaven above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath the earth.
5You must not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God. I hold the guilt of ancestors against their descendants to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me,
6but I show steadfast love to thousands who love me and keep my commandments.
7You must not bear the name of the LORD your God falsely, for the LORD will not leave unpunished anyone who bears his name falsely.
8Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
9You may work for six days and do all your labor,
10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You must not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or female servant, your livestock, or the resident foreigner within your gates.
11For in six days the LORD made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
12Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
13You must not murder.
14You must not commit adultery.
15You must not steal.
16You must not testify falsely against your neighbor.
17You must not covet your neighbor’s house. You must not covet your neighbor’s wife, male or female servant, ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
Compare the parallel in Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 5:6–21
6I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
7You must have no other gods before me.
8You must not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of what is in heaven above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath the earth.
9You must not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God. I hold the guilt of ancestors against their descendants to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me,
10but I show steadfast love to thousands who love me and keep my commandments.
11You must not bear the name of the LORD your God falsely, for the LORD will not leave unpunished anyone who bears his name falsely.
12Keep the Sabbath day holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.
13You may work for six days and do all your labor,
14but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You must not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or female servant, your ox, your donkey, any of your livestock, or the resident foreigner within your gates—so that your male and female servants may rest as you do.
15Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a strong hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
16Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you, so that your days may be long and it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
17You must not murder.
18You must not commit adultery.
19You must not steal.
20You must not testify falsely against your neighbor.
21You must not covet your neighbor’s wife. You must not desire your neighbor’s house, field, male or female servant, ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
Where they appear
The words are given in Exodus 20:1–17 after Israel’s deliverance from Egypt and are repeated in Deuteronomy 5:6–21 as Moses addresses the next generation.
The two passages share the same covenantal center but give different reasons for Sabbath rest. Reading both keeps those differences visible.