Deuteronomy 5:2
New International Version
The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

New Living Translation
“The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Mount Sinai.

English Standard Version
The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

Berean Standard Bible
The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

King James Bible
The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

New King James Version
The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

New American Standard Bible
The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

NASB 1995
“The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

NASB 1977
“The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh our God cut a covenant with us at Horeb.

Amplified Bible
The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

Christian Standard Bible
The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

American Standard Version
Jehovah our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD our God made an agreement with our nation at Mount Sinai.

English Revised Version
The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The LORD our God made a promise to us at Mount Horeb.

Good News Translation
At Mount Sinai the LORD our God made a covenant,

International Standard Version
When the LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb,

Majority Standard Bible
The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

NET Bible
The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

New Heart English Bible
The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

World English Bible
Yahweh our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Our God YHWH made a covenant with us in Horeb;

Young's Literal Translation
Jehovah our God made with us a covenant in Horeb;

Smith's Literal Translation
Jehovah our God cut out with us a covenant in Horeb.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

Catholic Public Domain Version
The Lord our God formed a covenant with us at Horeb.

New American Bible
The LORD, our God, made a covenant with us at Horeb;

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
LORD JEHOVAH our God has covenanted with us a covenant in Khoreeb.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The Lord your God made a covenant with you in Choreb.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Covenant in Horeb
1Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I declare in your hearing this day. Learn them and observe them carefully. 2The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. 3He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.…

Cross References
Exodus 19:5-6
Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine. / And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites.”

Exodus 24:3-8
When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: “All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do.” / And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Early the next morning he got up and built an altar at the base of the mountain, along with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. / Then he sent out some young men of Israel, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the LORD. ...

Deuteronomy 4:13
He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.

Deuteronomy 29:1
These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb.

Jeremiah 31:31-34
Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. / It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD. / “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people. ...

Hebrews 8:6-13
Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises. / For if that first covenant had been without fault, no place would have been sought for a second. / But God found fault with the people and said: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. ...

Exodus 34:10
And the LORD said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will perform wonders that have never been done in any nation in all the world. All the people among whom you live will see the LORD’s work, for it is an awesome thing that I am doing with you.

Leviticus 26:9-12
I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you. / You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new. / And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you. ...

Deuteronomy 7:6-9
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth. / The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. / But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. ...

2 Corinthians 3:6-11
And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. / Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory, / will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? ...

Romans 9:4
the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

Psalm 105:8-10
He remembers His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations— / the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac. / He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:

Nehemiah 9:13-14
You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments. / You revealed to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments and statutes and laws through Your servant Moses.

Galatians 3:15-18
Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be canceled or amended. / The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ. / What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise. ...

Ezekiel 16:8
Then I passed by and saw you, and you were indeed old enough for love. So I spread My cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares the Lord GOD.


Treasury of Scripture

The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

Deuteronomy 4:23
Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.

Exodus 19:5-8
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: …

Exodus 24:8
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.

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The LORD our God
This phrase emphasizes the personal and covenantal relationship between God and the Israelites. The Hebrew word for "LORD" is "YHWH," the sacred and personal name of God, often rendered as Yahweh. It signifies God's eternal, self-existent nature and His faithfulness to His promises. "Our God" indicates a collective belonging and acknowledgment of God as the supreme authority and protector of Israel. This relationship is foundational to the identity of the Israelites as God's chosen people, highlighting the intimacy and exclusivity of their bond with the divine.

made a covenant
The Hebrew word for "covenant" is "berith," which refers to a solemn agreement or contract. In ancient Near Eastern culture, covenants were binding and often involved rituals or sacrifices. This covenant at Horeb, also known as Mount Sinai, was a pivotal moment in Israel's history, where God gave the Ten Commandments and established the law. It was not merely a legal contract but a relational commitment, where God promised to be their God, and they were to be His people, living according to His statutes.

with us
The phrase "with us" underscores the communal aspect of the covenant. It was not made with individuals but with the entire nation of Israel. This collective experience at Horeb was meant to unify the people under God's law and purpose. It also serves as a reminder to future generations that they are part of this ongoing relationship with God, bound by the same covenantal promises and responsibilities.

at Horeb
Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai, the sacred mountain where Moses received the Ten Commandments. This location is significant in biblical history as a place of divine revelation and encounter. Archaeologically, while the exact location of Horeb/Sinai is debated, it is traditionally associated with the Sinai Peninsula. The events at Horeb were foundational for the Israelite identity, marking the transition from a group of liberated slaves to a nation under God's law. This setting emphasizes the holiness and gravity of the covenant, as it was delivered in a place set apart for divine interaction.

(2) The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.--It must never be forgotten that the Law is a covenant in its very form. (See Note on Deuteronomy 5:6.)

Verses 2, 3. - Not with our fathers, the patriarchs (cf. Deuteronomy 4:37.) The covenant to which Moses refers is not that made with Abraham, but that made at Sinai, with Israel as a people; and though the individuals who were then present had all perished with the exception of Moses, Joshua, and Caleb, the nation survived, and as it was with the nation as an organic whole that the covenant had been made. it might be with propriety said that it was made with those whom Moses addressed at this time, inasmuch as they constituted the nation.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The LORD
יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

our God
אֱלֹהֵ֗ינוּ (’ĕ·lō·hê·nū)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

made
כָּרַ֥ת (kā·raṯ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3772: To cut, to destroy, consume, to covenant

a covenant
בְּרִ֖ית (bə·rîṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 1285: A covenant

with
עִמָּ֛נוּ (‘im·mā·nū)
Preposition | first person common plural
Strong's 5973: With, equally with

us at Horeb.
בְּחֹרֵֽב׃ (bə·ḥō·rêḇ)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 2722: Horeb -- 'waste', a mountain in Sinai


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