¹ 神吩咐這一切的話說：

² 我是耶和華─你的神，曾將你從埃及地為奴之家領出來。

³ 除了我以外，你不可有別的神。

⁴ 不可為自己雕刻偶像，也不可做甚麼形像彷彿上天、下地，和地底下、水中的百物。

⁵ 不可跪拜那些像，也不可事奉他，因為我耶和華─你的神是忌邪的神。恨我的，我必追討他的罪，自父及子，直到三四代；

⁶ 愛我、守我誡命的，我必向他們發慈愛，直到千代。

⁷ 不可妄稱耶和華─你神的名；因為妄稱耶和華名的，耶和華必不以他為無罪。

⁸ 當記念安息日，守為聖日。

⁹ 六日要勞碌做你一切的工，

¹⁰ 但第七日是向耶和華─你神當守的安息日。這一日你和你的兒女、僕婢、牲畜，並你城裡寄居的客旅，無論何工都不可做；

¹¹ 因為六日之內，耶和華造天、地、海，和其中的萬物，第七日便安息，所以耶和華賜福與安息日，定為聖日。

¹² 當孝敬父母，使你的日子在耶和華─你神所賜你的地上得以長久。

¹³ 不可殺人。

¹⁴ 不可姦淫。

¹⁵ 不可偷盜。

¹⁶ 不可作假見證陷害人。

¹⁷ 不可貪戀人的房屋；也不可貪戀人的妻子、僕婢、牛驢，並他一切所有的。

¹⁸ 眾百姓見雷轟、閃電、角聲、山上冒煙，就都發顫，遠遠的站立，

¹⁹ 對摩西說：求你和我們說話，我們必聽；不要神和我們說話，恐怕我們死亡。

²⁰ 摩西對百姓說：不要懼怕；因為神降臨是要試驗你們，叫你們時常敬畏他，不致犯罪。

²¹ 於是百姓遠遠地站立；摩西就挨近神所在的幽暗之中。

²² 耶和華對摩西說：你要向以色列人這樣說：你們自己看見我從天上和你們說話了。

²³ 你們不可做甚麼神像與我相配，不可為自己做金銀的神像。

²⁴ 你要為我築土壇，在上面以牛羊獻為燔祭和平安祭。凡記下我名的地方，我必到那裡賜福給你。

²⁵ 你若為我築一座石壇，不可用鑿成的石頭，因你在上頭一動家具，就把壇污穢了。

²⁶ 你上我的壇，不可用臺階，免得露出你的下體來。

¹ Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

² He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

³ and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don't go away from your servant.

⁴ Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

⁵ I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant." They said, "Very well, do as you have said."

⁶ Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly prepare three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."

⁷ Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.

⁸ He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

⁹ They asked him, "Where is Sarah, your wife?" He said, "See, in the tent."

¹⁰ He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

¹¹ Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

¹² Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"

¹³ Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'

¹⁴ Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."

¹⁵ Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."

¹⁶ The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.

¹⁷ Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

¹⁸ since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

¹⁹ For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."

²⁰ Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

²¹ I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know."

²² The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

²³ Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

²⁴ What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?

²⁵ Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"

²⁶ Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake."

²⁷ Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

²⁸ What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."

²⁹ He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."

³⁰ He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."

³¹ He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."

³² He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."

³³ Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.