Deuteronomy 5:1-21 ▼

1 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances that I speak in your? hearing today, that you? may learn them and be careful to observe them.

2 YHWH our God made with us a covenant in Horeb.

3 Not with our fathers did YHWH make this covenant, but with us—we, these here today, all of us who are alive.

4 YHWH spoke with you? Face to face on the mountain out of the midst of the fire.

5 I stood between YHWH and between you? at that time, to declare to you? the word of YHWH; for you? were afraid because of the fire, and you? did not go up the mountain. He said,

6 “I am YHWH your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

7 You shall have no other gods before Me.

8 You shall not make for yourself a carved image, any likeness that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water beneath the earth.

9 You shall not bow down to them and you shall not serve them, for I, YHWH your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons and on the third and fourth of those hating Me,

10 and showing loving devotion to thousands, to those loving Me and keeping My commandments.

11 You shall not lift up the name of YHWH your God in vain, for YHWH will not hold guiltless him who lifts up His name in vain.

12 Observe the day of the Sabbath, to keep it holy, as YHWH your God has commanded you.

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

14 and the seventh day is the Sabbath to YHWH your God; you shall not do any work—you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and your ox, and your donkey, and any of your cattle, and your sojourner who is within your gates—that your manservant and your maidservant may rest like you.

15 And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and YHWH your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Upon thus YHWH your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

16 Honor your father and your mother, as YHWH your God has commanded you, that your days may be long, that it may be well with you in the land that YHWH your God is giving to you.

17 You shall not murder.

18 And you shall not commit adultery.

19 And you shall not steal.

20 And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

21 And you shall not covet the wife of your neighbor, and you shall not covet the house of your neighbor, his field, and his manservant, and his maidservant, his ox, and his donkey, and anything that is unto your neighbor.”