1   And Moyses called al Israel, and said to them: Heare Israel the ceremonies & iudgements, which I speake in your eares this day: lerne them, and ^note fulfil them in worke.

2   The Lord our God made a couenant with vs in Horeb.

3   Not with our fathers did he make the couenant, but with vs at this present, and doe liue.

4   Face to face did he speake to vs in the mount out of the middes of the fyre.

5   I was arbiter and ^note mediatour betwixt our Lord and you at that time, to shew you his wordes, for you feared the fire, and went not vp into the mount, and he said:

6   I the Lord thy God, that brought thee out of the Land of Ægypt out of the house of seruitude.

7   Thou shalt not haue strange goddes in my sight.

8   09Q0160Thou shalt not make to thee a thing grauen, nor the similitude of any thinges, that are in heauen aboue, and that are in the earth beneath, and that abide in the waters vnder the earth.

9   Thou shalt not adore them, and thou shalt not serue them. For I am the Lord thy God, a Iealouse God, rendering the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children vnto the third and fourth generation to them that hate me,

10   and doing mercie vpon manie thousandes to them that loue me, and keepe my preceptes.

11   Thou shalt not vsurpe the name of the Lord thy God in vaine: for he shal not be vnpunished that taketh his name vpon a vaine thing.

12   Obserue the day of the Sabbath, to sanctifie it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.

13   Six dayes shalt thou worke, and shalt doe al thy workes.

14   The seuenth is the day of the

The tenns commandmentes. Sabbath, that is, the rest of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not doe any worke therin, thou, and thy sonne and daughter, man seruant and woman seruant, and oxe, and asse, and al thy cattel, and the stranger that is within thy gates: that thy man seruant may rest, and thy woman seruant, euen as thy selfe.

15   Remember that thou also didest serue in Ægypt, and the Lord thy God brought thee out from thence in a strong hand, and stretched out arme. Therfore hath he commanded thee that thou shouldest obserue the Sabbath.

16   Honour thy father and mother, as our Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that thou mayst liue a long time, and it may be wel with thee in the Land, which the Lord thy God wil geue thee.

17   Thou shalt not murder.

18   Neither shalt thou commirte aduoutrie.

19   And thou shal not steale.

20   Neither shalt thou speake against thy neighbour false testimonie.

21   Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours wife: ^note Nor house, nor field, nor man seruant, nor woman seruant, nor oxe, nor asse, and al thinges that are his.

22   These wordes spake our Lord to al your multitude in the mount, out of the middes of the fire and the cloude, and the darkenes, with a loude voice, adding nothing more: and he wrote them in the two tables of stone, which he deliuered vnto me.

23   And you after you heard the voice out of the middes of the darkenes, and saw the mount burne, came to me al the princes of the tribes and the elders, and you said:

24   Behold the Lord our God hath shewed vs his maiestie and greatnes, for we haue heard his voice out of the middes of the fire, and haue proued this day that God speaking with man, man hath liued.

25   Why shal we die therfore, and this exceding great fire deuoure vs? For if we heare the voice of the Lord our God any more, we shal die.

26   What is al flesh, that it should heare the voice of the liuing God, who speaketh out of the middes of the fire as we haue heard, and may liue?

27   Approche thou rather: and heare al thinges that the Lord our God shal say to thee: and thou shalt speake to vs, and we hearing wil doe them.

28   Which when our Lord had heard, he said to me: I haue heard the voice of the wordes of this people, which they spake to thee: they haue spoken al thinges wel.

29   Who shal geue them to haue such a minde, that they would feare me, and keepe al my commandementes at al time, that it may be wel with them and with their children for euer?

Preceptes and Iudgementes.

30   Goe and say to them: Returne into your tentes.

31   But thou stand here with me, and I wil speake to thee al my commandementes, and ceremonies and iudgementes: which thou shalt teach them, that they may doe them in the Land, which I wil geue them in possession.

32   Keepe therfore and doe the thinges which our Lord God hath commanded you: you shal not decline neither to the right hand, nor to the left:

33   but the way that the Lord your God hath commanded shal you walke, that you may liue, and it may be wel with you, and your daies may be prolonged in the land of your possession.

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