Deuteronomy 5
5
The Ten Commandments
1Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Israel, listen to the statutes and ordinances I am proclaiming as you hear them today. Learn and follow them carefully. 2The Lord our God made a covenant#Dt 31:16 with us at Horeb. 3He did not make this covenant with our ancestors,#Dt 4:31 but with all of us who are alive here today. 4The Lord spoke to you face to face from the fire on the mountain. 5At that time I was standing between the Lord and you to report the word#5:5 One Hb ms, DSS, Sam, LXX, Syr, Vg read words of the Lord to you, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain. And he said:
6I am the Lord your God,#Ex 20:2–17; Dt 8:14 who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.#Lv 26:13; Dt 6:12; 8:14; 13:5,10; Jos 24:17; Jr 34:13
7Do not have other gods besides me.
8Do not make an idol for yourself in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth. 9Do not bow in worship to them, and do not serve them, because I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ iniquity on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me,#Ex 34:7; Nm 14:18; Dt 7:10; Ezk 18 10but showing faithful love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commands.
11Do not misuse the name#Ex 3:13; 6:3; 33:19 of the Lord your God, because the Lord will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses his name.
12Be careful to remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy as the Lord your God has commanded you. 13You are to labor six days and do all your work, 14but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. Do not do any work — you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, your ox or donkey, any of your livestock, or the resident alien who lives within your city gates, so that your male and female slaves may rest as you do.
15Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out of there with a strong hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the Lord your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
16Honor your father and your mother,#Mt 19:18–19; Mk 10:19; Lk 18:20; Rm 13:9 as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and so that you may prosper in the land the Lord your God is giving you.#Mt 15:4; Mk 7:10; Eph 6:2–3
17Do not murder.#Mt 5:21; Jms 2:11
18Do not commit adultery.#Mt 5:27
19Do not steal.
20Do not give dishonest testimony against your neighbor.#Pr 25:18
21Do not covet your neighbor’s wife or desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.#Mt 19:18–19; Mk 10:19; Lk 18:20; Rm 13:9
The People’s Response
22“The Lord spoke these commands in a loud voice to your entire assembly from the fire, cloud, and total darkness on the mountain; he added nothing more. He wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me. 23All of you approached me with your tribal leaders and elders when you heard the voice from the darkness and while the mountain was blazing with fire. 24You said, ‘Look, the Lord our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice from the fire. Today we have seen that God speaks with a person, yet he still lives. 25But now, why should we die? This great fire will consume us and we will die if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer. 26For who out of all humanity has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the fire, as we have, and lived? 27Go near and listen to everything the Lord our God says. Then you can tell us everything the Lord our God tells you; we will listen and obey.’#Ex 20:18–21
28“The Lord heard your#5:28 Lit the sound of your words when you spoke to me. He said to me, ‘I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. Everything they have said is right. 29If only they had such a heart to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that they and their children would prosper forever. 30Go and tell them: Return to your tents. 31But you stand here with me, and I will tell you every command — the statutes and ordinances — you are to teach them, so that they may follow them in the land I am giving them to possess.’
32“Be careful to do as the Lord your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or the left. 33Follow the whole instruction the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live, prosper, and have a long life in the land you will possess.
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Deuteronomy 5
5
1And Moses calleth unto all Israel, and saith unto them, ‘Hear, Israel, the statutes and the judgments which I am speaking in your ears to-day, and ye have learned them, and have observed to do them.
2 Jehovah our God made with us a covenant in Horeb;
3not with our fathers hath Jehovah made this covenant, but with us; we — these — here to-day — all of us alive.
4Face to face hath Jehovah spoken with you, in the mount, out of the midst of the fire;
5I am standing between Jehovah and you, at that time, to declare to you the word of Jehovah, for ye have been afraid from the presence of the fire, and ye have not gone up into the mount; saying:
6‘I Jehovah [am] thy God, who hath brought thee out from the land of Egypt, from a house of servants.
7‘Thou hast no other gods in My presence.
8‘Thou dost not make to thee a graven image, any similitude which [is] in the heavens above, and which [is] in the earth beneath, and which [is] in the waters under the earth;
9thou dost not bow thyself to them nor serve them, for I Jehovah thy God [am] a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on a third [generation], and on a fourth, to those hating Me;
10and doing kindness to thousands, to those loving Me, and to those keeping My commands.
11‘Thou dost not take up the Name of Jehovah thy God for a vain thing, for Jehovah doth not acquit him who taketh up His Name for a vain thing.
12‘Observe the day of the sabbath — to sanctify it, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee;
13six days thou dost labour, and hast done all thy work,
14and the seventh day [is] a sabbath to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not do any work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and thine ox, and thine ass, and all thy cattle, and thy sojourner who [is] within thy gates; so that thy manservant, and thy handmaid doth rest like thyself;
15and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God is bringing thee out thence by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm; therefore hath Jehovah thy God commanded thee to keep the day of the sabbath.
16‘Honour thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee, so that thy days are prolonged, and so that it is well with thee, on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.
17‘Thou dost not murder.
18‘Thou dost not commit adultery.
19‘Thou dost not steal.
20‘Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour — a false testimony.
21‘Thou dost not desire thy neighbour's wife; nor dost thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, and his man-servant, and his handmaid, his ox, and his ass, and anything which [is] thy neighbour's.
22‘These words hath Jehovah spoken unto all your assembly, in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness — a great voice; and He hath not added, and He writeth them on two tables of stone, and giveth them unto me.
23‘And it cometh to pass as ye hear the voice out of the midst of the darkness, and of the mountain burning with fire, that ye come near unto me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders,
24and say, Lo, Jehovah our God hath shewed us His honour, and His greatness; and His voice we have heard out of the midst of the fire; this day we have seen that God doth speak with man — and he hath lived.
25‘And, now, why do we die? for consume us doth this great fire — if we add to hear the voice of Jehovah our God any more — then we have died.
26For who of all flesh [is] he who hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire like us — and doth live?
27Draw near thou, and hear all that which Jehovah our God saith, and thou, thou dost speak unto us all that which Jehovah our God speaketh unto thee, and we have hearkened, and done it.
28‘And Jehovah heareth the voice of your words, in your speaking unto me, and Jehovah saith unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken unto thee; they have done well [in] all that they have spoken.
29O that their heart had been thus to them, to fear Me, and to keep My commands all the days, that it may be well with them, and with their sons — to the age!
30‘Go, say to them, Turn back for yourselves, to your tents;
31and thou here stand thou with Me, and let Me speak unto thee all the command, and the statutes, and the judgments which thou dost teach them, and they have done in the land which I am giving to them to possess it.
32‘And ye have observed to do as Jehovah your God hath commanded you, ye turn not aside — right or left;
33in all the way which Jehovah your God hath commanded you ye walk, so that ye live, and [it is] well with you, and ye have prolonged days in the land which ye possess.
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