Deuteronomy 5:3
Good News Translation
not only with our fathers, but with all of us who are living today.

New Revised Standard Version
Not with our ancestors did the LORD make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today.

Contemporary English Version
That agreement wasn't only with our ancestors but with us, who are here today.

New American Bible
not with our ancestors did the LORD make this covenant, but with us, all of us who are alive here this day.

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

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

Deuteronomy 29:10-15 You all stand this day before the Lord your God, your princes, and tribes, and ancients, and doctors, all the people of Israel, . . .

Genesis 17:7,21 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee. . . .

Psalm 105:8-10 He hath remembered his covenant for ever: the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. . . .

Jeremiah 32:38-40 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God. . . .

Matthew 13:17 For, amen, I say to you, many prophets and just men have desired to see the things that you see, and have not seen them: and to hear the things that you hear and have not heard them.

Galatians 3:17-21 Now this I say: that the testament which was confirmed by God, the law which was made after four hundred and thirty years doth not disannul, to make the promise of no effect. . . .

Hebrews 8:8,9 For, finding fault with them, he saith: Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord: and I will perfect, unto the house of Israel and unto the house of Juda, a new testament: . . .

Context
The Covenant in Horeb
2The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 3He made not the covenant with our fathers, but with us, who are now present and living.4He spoke to us face to face in the mount out of the midst of fire.…
Cross References
Hebrews 8:9
Not according to the testament which I made to their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt: because they continued not in my testament: and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

Deuteronomy 29:1
These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab: beside that covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

Jeremiah 31:32
Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, the covenant which they made void, and I had dominion over them, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 34:13
Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying:

Deuteronomy 5:2
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