Deuteronomy 5
1 Moses called all Israel and said to them, “Listen, Israel, to the decrees and laws I am speaking to you today. Learn them and keep them, so you can put them into practice.
2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
3 The LORD did not make this covenant with our ancestors, but with us—with all of us who are here alive today.
4 The LORD spoke with you face to face on the mountain, from the midst of the fire.
5 At that time I stood between the LORD and you to tell you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain. He said:
6 ‘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 besides me.
8 You shall not make for yourself a carved image of any form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath the earth.
9 You shall not bow down to them or serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, holding parents accountable for their guilt through their children, to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me.
10 But I show steadfast love to thousands of generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
11 You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not leave unpunished anyone who misuses his name.’”
12 “‘Keep the Sabbath day holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.
13 You shall work and do all your labor for six days.
14 But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You shall do no work: neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor the foreigner living in your towns. Then your male and female servants can rest as you do.
15 Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. That is why 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, so that you may live long and all may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
17 You shall not murder.
18 You shall not commit adultery.
19 You shall not steal.
20 You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
21 You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his male or female servant, his ox, his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.’
22 The LORD spoke these words to your whole assembly on the mountain, from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice, and he added nothing more. He wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.”
23 “When you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain blazed with fire, all the leaders of your tribes and your elders came to me.
24 They said, ‘Look, the LORD our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice from the midst of the fire. Today we have seen that God can speak with a human being and that person can still live.
25 But why should we die now? This great fire will consume us. If we keep hearing the voice of the LORD our God, we will die.
26 For who among all living people has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and remained alive?
27 You go near and listen to everything the LORD our God says. Then tell us everything the LORD our God says to you, and we will listen and obey.’
28 The LORD heard what you said to me, and the LORD said to me, ‘I have heard what these people said to you. Everything they said was right.
29 If only they had such a heart—that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, so that all would go well with them and their children forever!
30 Go and tell them, “Return to your tents.”
31 But you stay here with me, and I will tell you every command, decree, and law that you are to teach them, so they can put them into practice in the land I am giving them to possess.’
32 So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left.
33 Walk in every way the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live, all may go well with you, and you may live long in the land you are going to possess.”
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