Deuteronomy 5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Deuteronomy 5The Ten Commandments

1Moses convened all Israel and said to them:

“Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I am addressing to you today; you shall learn them and observe them diligently.

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8“ ‘You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.

9 of those who love me and keep my commandments.

11“ ‘You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.

12“ ‘Observe the Sabbath day and keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you.

13Six days you shall labor and do all your work.

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18“ ‘Neither shall you commit adultery.

19“ ‘Neither shall you steal.

20“ ‘Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor.

21 Rom 7.7; 13.9 “ ‘Neither shall you covet your neighbor’s wife.

“ ‘Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, or field, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.’

Moses the Mediator of God’s Will

22 Ex 31.18; Deut 4.13 “These words the Lord spoke with a loud voice to your whole assembly at the mountain, out of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, and he added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

23When you heard the voice out of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you approached me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders,

24Ex 19.19and you said, ‘Look, the Lord our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the fire. We have seen this day that God may speak to someone and the person may still live.

25Deut 18.16But now why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer, we shall die.

26Deut 4.33For who is there of all flesh that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and lived?

27Go near, you yourself, and hear all that the Lord our God will say. Then tell us everything that the Lord our God tells you, and we will listen and do it.’

28 Deut 18.17 “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; they are right in all that they have spoken.

29Deut 4.40; Ps 81.13; Isa 48.18If only they had such a mind as this, to fear me and to keep all my commandments always, so that it might go well with them and with their children forever!

30Go say to them, “Return to your tents.”

31Ex 24.12But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandments, the statutes and the ordinances, that you shall teach them, so that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.’

32Deut 17.20; 28.14; Josh 1.7; 23.6You must therefore be careful to do as the Lord your God has commanded you; you shall not turn to the right or to the left.

33Deut 4.40You must follow exactly the path that the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live and that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land that you are to possess.