20Then God spoke all these words:
2 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; 3you shall have no other gods before* me.
4 You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me, 6but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation* of those who love me and keep my commandments.
7 You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.
8 Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. 9For six days you shall labour and do all your work. 10But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. 11For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and consecrated it.
12 Honour your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
13 You shall not murder.*
14 You shall not commit adultery.
15 You shall not steal.
16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.
17 You shall not covet your neighbour’s house; you shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour.
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20‘For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard.
2After agreeing with the labourers for the usual daily wage,* he sent them into his vineyard.
3When he went out about nine o’clock, he saw others standing idle in the market-place;
4and he said to them, “You also go into the vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.” So they went.
5When he went out again about noon and about three o’clock, he did the same.
6And about five o’clock he went out and found others standing around; and he said to them, “Why are you standing here idle all day?”
7They said to him, “Because no one has hired us.” He said to them, “You also go into the vineyard.”
8When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, “Call the labourers and give them their pay, beginning with the last and then going to the first.”
9When those hired about five o’clock came, each of them received the usual daily wage.*
10Now when the first came, they thought they would receive more; but each of them also received the usual daily wage.*
11And when they received it, they grumbled against the landowner,
12saying, “These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.”
13But he replied to one of them, “Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage?*
14Take what belongs to you and go; I choose to give to this last the same as I give to you.
15Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?”*
16So the last will be first, and the first will be last.’*
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