Deuteronomy 5

Revised Geneva Translation

5 Then Moses called all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the Ordinances and the Laws which I propose to you this day, so that you may learn them and be careful to observe them.

² “The LORD our God made a Covenant with us in Horeb.

³ “The LORD did not only make this Covenant with our fathers, but with us. That is, all of us here alive this day.

⁴ “The LORD talked with you face to face on the Mount, out of the midst of the fire.

⁵ “At that time, I stood between the LORD and you, to declare to you the Word of the LORD. For you were afraid at the sight of the fire and did not go up on the Mount. And He said,

⁶ ‘I am the LORD your God, Who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

⁷ ‘You shall have no other gods before My Face.

⁸ ‘You shall make no graven image for yourself, any likeness that is in Heaven above, which is in the Earth beneath, or that is in the waters under the Earth.

⁹ ‘You shall neither bow yourself to them, nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, even to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me,

¹⁰ ‘and showing mercy to thousands 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 lifts up His Name in a frivolous way.

¹² ‘Keep the Sabbath day, to sanctify it, as the LORD your God has Commanded you.

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

¹⁴ ‘But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. You shall not do any work—you or your son or your daughter or your manservant or your maid or your ox or your donkey or any of your cattle or the stranger that is within your gates—so that your manservant and your maid may rest as well as you.

¹⁵ ‘For, remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt. And the LORD your God brought you out from there by a mighty Hand and an outstretched Arm. Therefore, the LORD your God Commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

¹⁶ ‘Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has Commanded you, so that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you upon the land which the LORD your God gives you.

¹⁷ ‘You shall not kill.

¹⁸ ‘Nor shall you commit adultery.

¹⁹ ‘Nor shall you steal.

²⁰ ‘Nor shall you bear false witness against your neighbor.

²¹ ‘Nor shall you covet your neighbor’s wife. Nor shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his manservant, his maid, his ox, his donkey or anything that your neighbor has.’

²² “These words the LORD spoke with a great Voice to all your multitude on the Mount—out of the midst of the fire, the cloud and the darkness—and added no more. And He wrote them upon two Tablets of stone and delivered them to me.

²³ “And when you heard the Voice out of the midst of the darkness (for the mountain burned with fire), then you came to me, all the chiefs of your tribes, and your elders,

²⁴ “and you said, ‘Behold, the LORD our God has shown 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 talks with man, and he lives.

²⁵ ‘Now, therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us if we hear the Voice of the LORD our God anymore. 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 ‘You go near and hear all that the LORD our God says and declare to us all that the LORD our God says to you. And we will hear it and do it.’

²⁸ “Then the LORD heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me. And the LORD said to me, ‘I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They have well said all that they have spoken.

²⁹ ‘Oh that there were such a heart in them to fear Me, and to keep all My Commandments always, so that it might go well with them and with their children forever.

³⁰ ‘Go. Say to them, “Return into your tents.”

³¹ ‘But you stand here with Me. And I will tell you all the Commandments and the Ordinances and the Laws which you shall teach them, so that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.

³² ‘Be careful, therefore, to do as the LORD your God has Commanded you. Do not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

³³ ‘Walk in all the ways which the LORD your God has Commanded you, so that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.’”