Deuteronomy 5:4-33 ▼

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.”

22 These words YHWH spoke to all your? assembly in the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, in a loud voice. And He added no more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

23 And it came to pass when you? heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, and while the mountain was burning with the fire, that you? came near to me—all the heads of your? tribes and your? elders,

24 and you? said, “Surely YHWH our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the midst of the fire. This day we have seen that God speaks with man, and he has lived.

25 And now why should we die? For this great fire will consume us if we add to hear the voice of YHWH our God anymore, and we shall die.

26 For who of all flesh is he who has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we, and lived?

27 Draw near, you, and hear all that YHWH our God may say. And you tell to us all that YHWH our God says to you, and we will listen and do it.”

28 And YHWH heard the voice of your? words when you? spoke to me, and YHWH said to me, “I have heard the voice of the words of this people that they have spoken to you. They are right in all that they have spoken.

29 O that their heart had been given thus, to fear Me and to keep all My commandments all the days, so that it may be well with them and with their sons forever!

30 Go and say to them, ‘Return to your? tents.’

31 And you, stand here by Me and I will speak to you all the commandments, and the statutes, and the ordinances that you shall teach them, and they will do them in the land that I am giving to them to possess.”

32 And you? shall take heed to do as YHWH your? God has commanded you?; you? shall not turn aside to the right or to the left.

33 In all the ways that YHWH your? God has commanded you?, you? shall walk, so that you? may live, and that it may be well with you?, and that you? may prolong your days in the land that you? shall possess.