Deuteronomy Chapter 5

Deuteronomy Chapter 5
1 Then Moses called all Israel, and said
unto them, Hear, O Israel, the ordinances
and the laws which I propose to you this
day, that ye may learn them, and take
heed to observe them.
2 The Lord our God made a covenant
with us in Horeb.
3 The Lord made not this covenant with
our fathers only, but with us, even with
us all here alive this day.
4 The Lord talked with you face to face
in the mount, out of the midst of the fire.
5 (At that time I stood between the Lord
and you, to declare unto you the word of
the Lord: for ye were afraid at the sight
of the fire, and went not up into the
mount, and he said,
6 I am the Lord thy God, which have
brought thee out of the land of Egypt,
from the house of bondage.
7 Thou shalt have none other gods
before my face.
8 Thou shalt make thee no graven image
or any likeness of that that is in heaven
above, or which is in the earth beneath,
or that is in the waters under the earth.
9 Thou shalt neither bow thyself unto
them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy
God am a jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children,
even unto the third and fourth generation
of them that hate me: 10 And showing
mercy unto thousands of them that love
me, and keep my commandments.
11 Thou shalt not take the name of the
Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will
not hold him guiltless that taketh his
name in vain.
12 Keep the Sabbath day, to sanctify it,
as the Lord thy God hath commanded
thee.
13 Six days thou shalt labor, and shalt
do all thy work:
14 But the seventh day is the Sabbath of
the Lord thy God: thou shalt not do any
work therein, thou, nor thy son, nor thy
daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy
maid, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, neither
any of thy cattle, nor the stranger that is
within thy gates: that thy manservant and
thy maid may rest as well as thou.
15 For, remember that thou wast a
servant in the land of Egypt, and that the
Lord thy God brought thee out thence by
a mighty hand and a stretched out arm:
therefore the Lord thy God commanded
thee to observe the Sabbath day.
16 Honor thy father and thy mother, as
the Lord thy God hath commanded thee,
that thy days may be prolonged, and that
it may go well with thee upon the land,
which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
17 Thou shalt not kill.
18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
19 Neither shalt thou steal.
20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness
against thy neighbor.
21 Neither shalt thou covet thy
neighbor’s wife, neither shalt thou desire
thy neighbor’s house, his field, nor his
manservant, nor his maid, his ox, nor his
ass, nor ought that thy neighbor hath.
22 These words the Lord spake unto all
your multitude in the mount out of the
midst of the fire, the cloud and the
darkness, with a great voice, and added
no more thereto: and wrote them upon
two tables of stone, and delivered them
unto me.
23 And when ye heard the voice out of
the midst of the darkness, (for the
mountain did burn with fire) then ye
came to me, all the chief of your tribes,
and your elders:
24 And ye said, Behold, the Lord our
God hath showed us his glory and his
greatness, and we have heard his voice
out of the midst of the fire: we have seen
this day that God doth talk with man, and
he liveth.
25 Now therefore, why should we die?
For this great fire will consume us: if we
hear the voice of the Lord our God any
more, we shall die.
26 For what flesh was there ever, that
heard the voice of the living God
speaking out of the midst of the fire as
we have, and lived?
27 Go thou near and hear all that the
Lord our God saith: and declare thou
unto us all that the Lord our God saith
unto thee, and we will hear it, and do it.
28 Then the Lord heard the voice of your
words, when ye spake unto me: and the
Lord said unto me, I have heard the
voice of the words of this people, which
they have spoken unto thee: they have
well said, all that they have spoken.
29 Oh that there were such an heart in
them to fear me, and to keep all my
commandments always: that it might go
well with them, and with their children
forever.
30 Go, say unto them, Return you into
your tents.
31 But stand thou here with me, and I
will tell thee all the commandments, and
the ordinances, and the laws, which thou
shalt teach them: that they may do them
in the land which I give them to possess
it.
32 Take heed therefore, that ye do as the
Lord your God hath commanded you:
turn not aside to the right hand nor to the
left,
33 But walk in all the ways which the
Lord your God hath commanded you,
that ye may live, and that it may go well
with you: and that ye may prolong your
days in the land which ye shall possess.