The Ten Commandments – Exodus 20:1-17 Download

(and Mark 12:30, Lam 3:22-24, Ps 34:3, Is 58:13-14, Jn 14:21)

Cast:
4 Voices

VOICE 1:
And God spoke all these words, saying,
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

(1) You shall have no other gods before me.

VOICE 2:
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.

VOICE 1:
(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 or 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 the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

VOICE 3:
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”

VOICE 1:
(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.

VOICE 4:
Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together!

VOICE 1:
(4) Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

VOICE 3:
If you . . . call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly; then you shall take delight in the Lord.

VOICE 1:
(5) Honor your father and your mother,

VOICE 2:
that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

VOICE 1:
(6) You shall not murder.

VOICE 2:
(7) You shall not commit adultery.

VOICE 3:
(8) You shall not steal.

VOICE 4:
(9) You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

VOICE 1:
(10) You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.

VOICE 2:
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.