The Ten Commandments

The ten Commandments.

And God spake all these Words and said, I am the Lord your God which brought you out of the Land of Egypt, out of the House of Bondage.

1. You shall have none other Gods but me.

Lord have mercy upon me, and incline my heart to keep this law.

II. You shall not make to yourself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing which is in Heaven above, or in the Earth beneath, or in the Water under the Earth, you shall not bow down to them, nor worship them: for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation, of them that hate me, and show mercy to thousands in them that love me and keep my commandments.

Lord have mercy upon me, &c.

III. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless, that takes his name in vain.

Lord have mercy upon me &c.

IV. Remember that you keep holy the Sabbath Day, six days shall you labor and do all that you have to do: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God: in it you shall do no manner of work, you and your son, and your daughter, your man-servant, and your maidservant, your cattle, and the stranger that is within your gates, for in six days the Lord made Heaven and Earth, the sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it.

Lord have mercy upon me, &c.

V. Honor your father and your mother that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

Lord, have mercy upon me, &c.

VI. You shall do no murder.

Lord have mercy upon me, &c.

VII. You shall not commit adultery.

Lord have mercy upon me, &c.

VIII. You shall not steal.

Lord have mercy upon me, &c.

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

Lord have mercy upon me, &c.

X. You shall not covet your neighbor's house, you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his servant; nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his.

Lord have mercy upon me, and write all these your laws in my heart, I beseech you.