Deuteronomy 5
Berean Standard Bible · Compare translations · 1446 BC – 1406 BC · Egypt & the Exodus · Tap a verse to copy, share or highlight ·
33 verses · 837 words · ~4 min read · ~6 min listen
The Covenant at Horeb
1Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them:
Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I declare in your hearing this day. Learn them and observe them carefully. 2The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
3He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today. 4The Lord spoke with you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.
The Ten Commandments
5At that time I was standing between the Lord and you to declare to you the word of the Lord, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain. And He said: 6“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Moses Intercedes for the People
22The Lord spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
23And when you heard the voice out of the darkness while the mountain was blazing with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me, 24and you said, “Behold, the Lord our God has shown us His glory and greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the fire. Today we have seen that a man can live even if God speaks with him. 25But now, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us, and we will die, if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer. 26For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and survived? 27Go near and listen to all that the Lord our God says. Then you can tell us everything the Lord our God tells you; we will listen and obey.”
28And the Lord heard the words you spoke to me, and He said to me, “I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken. 29If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever. 30Go and tell them: ‘Return to your tents.’ 31But you stand here with Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments and statutes and ordinances you are to teach them to follow in the land that I am giving them to possess.”
32So be careful to do as the Lord your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left. 33You must walk in all the ways that the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.
Footnotes (10)
- a v1 Note that Deuteronomy 5:1through Deuteronomy 26:19may be presented as a continuous section of unbroken speech by Moses. In place of multiple levels of nested quotes, this section has been set apart with a double space.
- b v2 That is, Mount Sinai, or possibly a mountain in the range containing Mount Sinai
- c v7 Or besides Me
- d v10 Hebrew loving devotion to thousands; forms of the Hebrew chesed are translated here and in most cases throughout the Scriptures as loving devotion; the range of meaning includes love, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, and mercy, as well as loyalty to a covenant.
- e v16 Cited in Matthew 15:4,Matthew 19:19,Mark 7:10,Luke 18:20,and Ephesians 6:2–3
- f v17 Cited in Matthew 5:21,Matthew 19:18,Mark 10:19,Luke 18:20,Romans 13:9,and James 2:11
- g v18 Cited in Matthew 5:27,Matthew 19:18,Mark 10:19,Luke 18:20,Romans 13:9,and James 2:11
- h v19 Cited in Matthew 19:18,Mark 10:19,Luke 18:20,and Romans 13:9
- i v20 Cited in Matthew 19:18,Mark 10:19,and Luke 18:20
- j v21 Cited in Romans 7:7and Romans 13:9