Deuteronomy 5

1Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.”Cross-references: Deut 1:1 · Deut 4:1 · Deut 29:2 · Deut 29:10 · Matt 23:3

2Yahweh our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.Cross-references: Ex 19:5 · Ex 24:8 · Deut 4:23 · Heb 8:6 · Heb 9:19

3Yahweh didn’t make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive today.Cross-references: Gen 17:7 · Gen 17:21 · Deut 29:10 · Ps 105:8 · Jer 32:38 · Matt 13:17 · +2 more

4Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the middle of the fire,Cross-references: Ex 19:9 · Ex 19:18 · Ex 20:18 · Ex 33:11 · Num 12:8 · Num 14:14 · +4 more

5(I stood between Yahweh and you at that time, to show you Yahweh’s word; for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn’t go up onto the mountain) saying,Cross-references: Gen 18:22 · Ex 19:16 · Ex 20:18 · Ex 24:2 · Num 16:48 · Deut 5:27 · +6 more

6“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.Cross-references: Ex 20:2 · Lev 26:1 · Deut 4:4 · Ps 81:5

7“You shall have no other gods before me.Cross-references: Ex 20:3 · Matt 4:10 · John 5:23 · 1John 5:21

8“You shall not make a carved image for yourself—any likeness of what is in heaven above, or what is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.Cross-references: Ex 20:4 · Deut 4:15

9You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate meCross-references: Ex 20:4 · Ex 34:7 · Ex 34:14 · Num 14:18 · Jer 32:18 · Dan 9:4 · +2 more

10and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.Cross-references: Deut 6:5 · Deut 10:12 · Isa 1:16 · Jer 32:18 · Dan 9:4 · Matt 7:21 · +8 more

11“You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God; for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.Cross-references: Ex 20:7 · Lev 19:12 · Deut 6:13 · Ps 139:20 · Jer 4:2 · Matt 5:33 · +1 more

12“Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you.Cross-references: Ex 20:8 · Isa 56:6 · Isa 58:13

13You shall labor six days, and do all your work;Cross-references: Ex 23:12 · Ex 35:2 · Ezek 20:12 · Luke 13:14 · Luke 23:56

14but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work—neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.Cross-references: Gen 2:2 · Ex 16:29 · Ex 23:12 · Lev 25:44 · Neh 5:5 · Neh 13:15 · +2 more

15You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Therefore Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.Cross-references: Deut 4:34 · Deut 5:6 · Deut 15:15 · Deut 16:12 · Deut 24:18 · Ps 116:16 · +5 more

16“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you, that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.Cross-references: Ex 20:12 · Lev 19:3 · Deut 4:40 · Deut 27:16 · Matt 15:4 · Matt 19:19 · +5 more

17“You shall not murder.Cross-references: Gen 9:6 · Ex 20:13 · Matt 5:21 · Matt 19:18 · Rom 13:9 · James 2:11

18“You shall not commit adultery.Cross-references: Ex 20:14 · Lev 20:10 · Prov 6:32 · Matt 5:27 · Luke 18:20 · James 2:10

19“You shall not steal.Cross-references: Ex 20:15 · Rom 13:9 · Eph 4:28

20“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.Cross-references: Ex 20:16 · Ex 23:1 · Deut 19:16 · 1Ki 21:13 · Prov 6:19 · Prov 19:5 · +2 more

21“You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”Cross-references: Ex 20:17 · 1Ki 21:1 · Mic 2:2 · Hab 2:9 · Luke 12:15 · Rom 7:7 · +3 more

22Yahweh spoke these words to all your assembly on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice. He added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets, and gave them to me.Cross-references: Ex 19:18 · Ex 24:12 · Ex 31:18 · Deut 4:12 · Deut 4:36 · Deut 5:4

23When you heard the voice out of the middle of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;Cross-references: Ex 20:18 · Heb 12:18

24and you said, “Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the middle of the fire. We have seen today that God does speak with man, and he lives.Cross-references: Gen 32:30 · Ex 19:19 · Ex 33:20 · Deut 4:33 · Deut 5:4 · Judg 13:22

25Now therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear Yahweh our God’s voice any more, then we shall die.Cross-references: Deut 18:16 · Deut 33:2 · 2Cor 3:7 · Gal 3:10 · Gal 3:21 · Heb 12:29

26For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as we have, and lived?Cross-references: Gen 6:12 · Deut 4:33 · Josh 3:10 · Ps 42:2 · Ps 84:2 · Isa 40:6 · +7 more

27Go near, and hear all that Yahweh our God shall say, and tell us all that Yahweh our God tells you; and we will hear it, and do it.”Cross-references: Ex 20:19 · Heb 12:19

28Yahweh heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me; and Yahweh said to me, “I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have well said all that they have spoken.Cross-references: Num 27:7 · Num 36:5 · Deut 18:17

29Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!Cross-references: Deut 4:40 · Deut 5:16 · Deut 6:3 · Deut 6:18 · Deut 11:1 · Deut 12:25 · +24 more

30“Go tell them, ‘Return to your tents.’

31But as for you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandments, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.”Cross-references: Ex 24:12 · Deut 4:1 · Deut 4:5 · Deut 4:45 · Deut 5:1 · Deut 6:1 · +5 more

32You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn away to the right hand or to the left.Cross-references: Deut 4:1 · Deut 6:3 · Deut 6:25 · Deut 8:1 · Deut 11:32 · Deut 12:32 · +10 more

33You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.Cross-references: Deut 4:40 · Deut 5:29 · Deut 10:12 · Ps 119:6 · Jer 7:23 · Luke 1:6 · +2 more