Deuteronomy 5:3
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New International Version (©2011)
It was not with our ancestors that the LORD made this covenant, but with us, with all of us who are alive here today.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The LORD did not make this covenant with our ancestors, but with all of us who are alive today.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Not with our fathers did the LORD make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"The LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, with all those of us alive here today.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.

International Standard Version (©2012)
it was not with our ancestors that the LORD made this covenant, but with us—we who are here today—all of us who are now living.

NET Bible (©2006)
He did not make this covenant with our ancestors but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He didn't make this promise to our ancestors, but to all of us who are alive here today.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

American King James Version
The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

American Standard Version
Jehovah made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He made not the covenant with our fathers, but with us, who are now present and living.

Darby Bible Translation
Not with our fathers did Jehovah make this covenant, but with us, even us, those who are here alive all of us this day.

English Revised Version
The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

World English Bible
Yahweh didn't make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

Young's Literal Translation
not with our fathers hath Jehovah made this covenant, but with us; we -- these -- here to-day -- all of us alive.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

5:1-5 Moses demands attention. When we hear the word of God we must learn it; and what we have learned we must put in practice, for that is the end of hearing and learning; not to fill our heads with notions, or our mouths with talk, but to direct our affections and conduct.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers,.... That is, not with them only, as Jarchi, Aben Ezra, and Abendana remark; for certain it is that this covenant was made, or law was given, to the immediate fathers of this present generation of Israelites, whose carcasses had fallen in the wilderness; unless this is to be understood of their more remote ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, with whom the covenant of grace was made, or afresh made manifest, especially with the former; when the law, the covenant here spoken of, was not delivered until four hundred and thirty years after, Galatians 3:16,

but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day; many of them were then present at the giving of the law, and though under twenty years of age, could remember it, and the circumstances of it; and besides, they were the same people to whom it was given, though not consisting wholly of the same individuals.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

3. The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us—The meaning is, "not with our fathers" only, "but with us" also, assuming it to be "a covenant" of grace. It may mean "not with our fathers" at all, if the reference is to the peculiar establishment of the covenant of Sinai; a law was not given to them as to us, nor was the covenant ratified in the same public manner and by the same solemn sanctions. Or, finally, the meaning may be "not with our fathers" who died in the wilderness, in consequence of their rebellion, and to whom God did not give the rewards promised only to the faithful; but "with us," who alone, strictly speaking, shall enjoy the benefits of this covenant by entering on the possession of the promised land.

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The Covenant in Horeb
1And Moses called all Israel, and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that you may learn them, and keep, and do them. 2The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 3The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

Hebrews 8:9 It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord.
Deuteronomy 29:1 These are the terms of the covenant the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.
Jeremiah 31:32 It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them," declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 34:13 "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. I said,