Deuteronomy 5:6-21

The Ten Commandments

6 c "'I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

7 "'You shall have no other gods before 1 me.

8 "'You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 9 You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 10 but showing steadfast love to d thousands 2 of those who love me and keep my commandments.

11 "'You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

12 "'Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. 13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 14 but e the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, f that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. 15 g You shall remember that you were a slave 3 in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there h with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

16 "'Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, i that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

17 j "'You shall not murder. 4

18 j "'And you shall not commit adultery.

19 "'And you shall not steal.

20 "'And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

21 "'And you shall not covet your neighbor's wife. And you shall not 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.'

  1. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 5:6 - 21
    'I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
    Exodus 20:2 - 17
    I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
  2. Cross References
    Exodus 20:6
    But showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
    Jeremiah 32:18
    You show steadfast love to thousands, but you repay the guilt of fathers to their children after them, O great and mighty God, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
  3. Cross References
    Exodus 16:29 - 30
    See! The Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Remain each of you in his place; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.
    Hebrews 4:4
    For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.
  4. Cross References
    Exodus 23:12
    Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.
  5. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 15:15
    You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today.
    Deuteronomy 16:12
    You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.
    Deuteronomy 24:18
    But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this.
    Deuteronomy 24:22
    You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this.
  6. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:34
    Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
  7. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:40
    Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.
  8. Cross References
    Matthew 5:21
    "You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.'
    Matthew 5:27
    "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.'
    Luke 18:20
    You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.'
    James 2:11
    For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
  9. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 5:17
    'You shall not murder.
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