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## Deuteronomy 5:11 in Context (Verses 8–14 KJV)
 
 [8 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/5/8) Thou shalt not make 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 waters beneath the earth:
 
 [9 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/5/9) Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God *am* a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth *generation* of them that hate me,
 
 [10 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/5/10) And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
 
 [11 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/5/11) Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold *him* guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
 
 [12 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/5/12) Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.
 
 [13 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/5/13) Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:
 
 [14 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/5/14) But the seventh day *is* the sabbath of the LORD thy God: *in it* thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that *is* within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
 
[Deuteronomy 4](/kjv/deuteronomy/4) [Deuteronomy 6](/kjv/deuteronomy/6)

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