First Tables of Stone (Ex. 20)
("which Moses didst break")
 

 

Second Tables of Stone (Ex. 34)
("the words that were on the first")
 

1. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me.
 

1. Thou shalt worship no other god (For the Lord is a jealous god).
 

2. You shall not make for yourself a graven image. You shall not bow down to them or serve them.
 

2. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
 

3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
 

3. The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep in the month when the ear is on the corn.
 

4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
 

4. All the first-born are mine.
 

5. Honor your father and your mother.
 

5. Six days shalt thou work, but on the seventh thou shalt rest.
 

6. You shall not kill.
 

6. Thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, even of the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
 

7. You shall not commit adultery.
 

7. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread.
 

8. You shall not steal.
 

8. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning.
 

9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
 

9. The first of the first fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God.
 

10. You shall not covet.
 

10. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.
 

Adapted from Microsoft Bookshelf 98
 

K. Budde, History of Ancient Hebrew Literature

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