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The, x. Commaundements.

Audi Israell. Exod. xx.

N.
Hark Israel, & what I say,
geue hede to vnderstād.
I am the lord thy God,
yt brought thee out of Egipt land,
euen frō the house wherin
thou didst in thraldō liue a slaue.
Non other gods at all before


my presence shalt thou haue.
No maner grauen image shalt
thou make at all to thee.
Nor any figure like by thee
shall counterfayted be,
O fany thing in heauen aboue,
nor in the earth belowe,
Nor in waters beneth the earth,
to them thou shalt not bowe.
Nor shalt them serue. The Lorde thy God,
a ielous God am I,
That punish parents faultes vnto
the third and fourth degree,
Upon their children that me hate:
and mercy doo display
To thousands of suche as me loue
and my precepts obey.
The name thou of the Lorde thy God,
in vayne shalt neuer vse.
For him that takes his name in vayne,
the Lorde shall not excuse.
Remember that thou holy kepe,
the sacred Sabbat day:
Sir daies thou labour shalt, and doo
thy nedefull workes alway.
The seuenth is set by the Lord,
thy God to rest vpon.


No worke shalt thou doo in it,
ne thou, nor yet thy sonne,
Thy daughter, seruaunt, nor handmayd,
thine oxe, nor yet thine asse
Nor straunger that within thy gates
hath his abiding place.
For in six dayes God heauen, and earth,
and all therin did make,
And after those his rest he did
Upon the seuenth take,
Wherfore he blest the day that he
for resting did ordayne,
And sacred to him self alone
apointed to remayne.
Yeld honor to thy parentes, that
prolonged thy dayes may be,
Upon the land, the which the Lord
thy God hath geuen thee.
Thou shalt not murther. Thou shalt not
commit adulterye.
Thou shalt not steale, nor witnes false
against thy neighbour be.
Thou shalt not couet house that to
thy neyghbor doth belong,
Ne couet shalt in hauing of
his wyfe to doo him wrong:
Nor his man seruaunt, nor his mayde,
nor oxe, nor asse of his:
Nor any other thing that to
thy neighbor proper is.
FINIS.