The translation of the bible first brought to American shores was the Geneva Bible This video explains the history of protestants who fled European religious persecution to make a new nation where they could read God’s word and worship God in freedom.

The Ten Commandments
From the Geneva Bible, published in 1599

Deut. 5.1-21

These commandments of God are the basis of western civilization and guided the founding fathers as they wrote the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.

I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

• Thou shalt have none other gods before my face.
• Thou shalt make thee no graven image or any likeness of that that is in heaven above, or which is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters under the earth.
• Thou shalt neither bow 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, even unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me: And showing mercy unto thousands of them that 1love me, and keep my commandments.
• 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.
• Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.  Six days thou shalt labor, and shalt do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt not do any work therein, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maid, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, neither any of thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy gates: that thy manservant and thy maid may rest as well as thou.For, remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence by a mighty hand, and a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to observe the Sabbath day.
• Honor thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee upon the land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
• Thou shalt not kill.
• Neither shalt thou commit adultery
• Neither shalt thou steal.
• Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor.
• Neither shalt thou covet thy neighbor’s wife, neither shalt thou desire thy neighbor’s house, his field, nor his manservant, nor his maid, his ox, nor his ass, nor ought that thy neighbor hath.

2 Chronicles 7:14

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.