The Ten Commandments

Deuteronomy 5

1 And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them. 2 x The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 3 y Not with our fathers did the Lord make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today. 4 The Lord spoke with you z face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, 5 a while I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the Lord. For b you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the mountain. He said:

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.'

22 "These words the Lord spoke to all your assembly k at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and he added no more. And l he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. 23 And m as soon as you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders. 24 And you said, 'Behold, the Lord our God has shown us his glory and n greatness, and o we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire. This day we have seen God speak with man, and man p still live. 25 Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. q If we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, we shall die. 26 p For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire as we have, and has still lived? 27 Go near and hear all that the Lord our God will say and r speak to us all that the Lord our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it.'

28 "And the Lord heard your words, when you spoke to me. And the Lord said to me, 'I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. s They are right in all that they have spoken. 29 t Oh that they had such a mind as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, u that it might go well with them and with their descendants 5 forever! 30 Go and say to them, "Return to your tents." 31 But you, stand here by me, and v I will tell you the whole commandment and the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.' 32 You shall be careful therefore to do as the Lord your God has commanded you. w You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 33 x You shall walk in all the way that the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live, and y that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess.

  1. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:23
    Take care, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make a carved image, the form of anything that the Lord your God has forbidden you.
    Exodus 19:5
    Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine.
  2. Cross References
    Hebrews 8:9
    Not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.
  3. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 34:10
    And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face.
    Exodus 33:11
    Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
    Numbers 14:14
    And they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, O Lord, are in the midst of this people. For you, O Lord, are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
    Judges 6:22
    Then Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the Lord. And Gideon said, "Alas, O Lord God! For now I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.
  4. Cross References
    Exodus 20:21
    The people stood far off, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
    Galatians 3:19
    Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.
  5. Cross References
    Exodus 19:16
    On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
    Exodus 20:18
    Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off
    Exodus 24:2
    Moses alone shall come near to the Lord, but the others shall not come near, and the people shall not come up with him.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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?
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 5:17
    'You shall not murder.
  15. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:11
    And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom.
  16. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 9:10 - 11
    And the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words that the Lord had spoken with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.
    Exodus 24:12
    The Lord said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain and wait there, that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.
  17. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:12
    Then the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, but saw no form; there was only a voice.
  18. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 3:24
    O Lord God, you have only begun to show your servant your greatness and your mighty hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as yours?
  19. Cross References
    Exodus 19:19
    And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in thunder.
  20. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:33
    Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live?
  21. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 18:16
    Just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, 'Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.
  22. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 5:24
    And you said, 'Behold, the Lord our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire. This day we have seen God speak with man, and man still live.
  23. Cross References
    Exodus 20:19
    And said to Moses, "You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.
  24. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 18:17
    And the Lord said to me, 'They are right in what they have spoken.
  25. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:29
    If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern their latter end!
    Psalms 81:13
    Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
    Isaiah 48:18
    Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
    Matthew 23:37
    O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!
    Luke 19:42
    Saying, "Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
  26. 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.
  27. Cross References
    Galatians 3:19
    Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.
  28. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 17:20
    That his heart may not be lifted up above his b...
    Deuteronomy 28:14
    And if you do not turn aside from any of the wo...
    Joshua 1:7
    Only be strong and very courageous, being caref...
    Joshua 23:6
    Therefore, be very strong to keep and to do all...
    2 Kings 22:2
    And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lo...
    Proverbs 4:27
    Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn...
  29. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 10:12
    And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
    Deuteronomy 30:16
    If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
    Jeremiah 7:23
    But this command I gave them: 'Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.
    Luke 1:6
    And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.
  30. 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.
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