Exodus 20:7
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain; for the Lord your God will not acquit him that takes his name in vain.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
8Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy.
Cross References
Genesis 27:20And Isaac said to his son, What is this which you have quickly found? And he said, That which the Lord your God presented before me.
Leviticus 24:11And the son of the Israelitish woman named THE NAME and curse; and they brought him to Moses: and his mother's name was Salomith, daughter of Dabri of the tribe of Dan.
Deuteronomy 5:11You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord your God will certainly not acquit him that takes his name in vain.
Joshua 2:12And now swear to me by the Lord God; since I deal mercifully with you, so do you⌃ also deal mercifully with the house of my father:
Joshua 9:20This we will do; take them alive, and we will preserve them: so there shall not be wrath against us by reason of the oath which we swore to them.
1 Kings 2:9But you shall by no means hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man, and will know what you shall do to him, and shall bring down his grey hairs with blood to the grave.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 20:2-12
The Ten Commandments. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And God spake all these words, saying, 2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the… Read the whole commentary →