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The Ten Commandments
Exodus 20:1-17 (002 tp)
And God spoke all these words, saying:
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.
2. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
3. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
5. Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10. You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.
HALLELUYAH
A Morning Prayer
By Thomas Becon
O Heavenly Father, I most heartily thank You, that it has pleased Your fatherly goodness to take care of me this night past. I most entirely beseech You, O most merciful Father, to show the same kindness toward me this day. Preserve my body and my soul, that I may neither think, breath, speak nor do anything that may be displeasing to
Your fatherly goodness, dangerous to myself, or hurtful to my neighbor.
Instead, may all my doings be agreeable to Your most blessed will, which is always good; that I may advance Your glory, answer to my vocation, and profit my neighbor, whom I ought to love as myself.
And whensoever You call me home, may I be found a child not of darkness but of light, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
HALLELUYAH
