This translation is from the New American Standard Bible. Other translations are available here. Information about the original Hebrew meaning of what seem to be the key words is provided immediately below the scriptural text. Collections of scriptures dealing with similar principles are hyperlinked at the end of this post.
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Then God spoke all these words, saying,
2“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
3“You shall have no other gods before Me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.
8 “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9Six days you shall labor and do all your work,10but the seventh day is a sabbath of the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. 11For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the 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.
12“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives 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 neighbor.
17 “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 belongs to your neighbor.”
18All the people perceived the thunder and the lightning flashes and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood at a distance. 19Then they said to Moses, “Speak to us yourself and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, or we will die.” 20Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid; for God has come in order to test you, and in order that the fear of Him may remain with you, so that you may not sin.” 21So the people stood at a distance, while Moses approached the thick cloud where God was.
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love = אָהַב = 'ahab Blue Letter Bible human love for another, includes family, and sexual; act of being a friend; have affection for (sexually or otherwise); desire, breathe after; delight; be verdant, germinate
keep = שָׁמַר = šāmar Blue Letter Bible keep, guard, observe, give heed; retain, treasure up (in memory); preserve; attend to
commandments = מִצְוָה = miṣvâ Blue Letter Bible commandment; law, ordinance, precept
make sacred = קָדַשׁ = qāḏaš Blue Letter Bible to consecrate, sanctify, prepare, dedicate, be hallowed, be holy, be sanctified, be separate; to be set apart; to be hallowed; be treated as sacred; to set apart, devote; appoint; prepare; be hallowed, by contact with sacred things, and so tabooed from profane use; be pure, clean
labor = עָבַד = ʿāḇaḏ Blue Letter Bible labour, work, do work; work for another, serve another by labour; to serve as subjects; to be worked, be tilled (of land); to make oneself a servant; be led or enticed to serve; be bondmen, bond-service; do, dress, execute, husbandman; performs acts of worship; work his work
do = עָשָׂה = ʿāśâ Blue Letter Bible do, fashion, accomplish, make; work, produce; deal (with); to act, act with effect, effect; attend to, put in order; to observe, celebrate;advance; follow, fulfill; be industrious, labor; yield; produce by labor
all = כֹּל = kol Blue Letter Bible the whole; any, each, every, anything; totality, everything, of all kinds, every sort
work = מְלָאכָה = mᵊlā'ḵâ Blue Letter Bible occupation, work, business; service, use; public business; deputyship; employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); industrious; occupation; the work of an artisan; workmanship
honor = כָּבַד = kāḇaḏ Blue Letter Bible to be heavy, be weighty, be grievous, be hard, be rich, be honourable, be glorious, be burdensome, be honoured; to be made heavy, be honoured, enjoy honour, be made abundant; harden; to be great, plentiful
afraid = יָרֵא = yārē' Blue Letter Bible fear, revere, be afraid; tremble; stand in awe of, be awed; reverence, honor, respect; venerate; admire; be dreadful; cause astonishment and awe, be held in awe; inspire reverence or godly fear or awe; to make afraid, terrify; shoot, pour; morally to revere
fear = יִרְאָה = yir'â Blue Letter Bible respect, reverence, piety; revered; holy fear; awesome or terrifying thing; fear, terror
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Wisdom Principles--God’s Ways Give Security
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