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Deuteronomy 5

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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.Select Deuteronomy 5:1

2The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.Select Deuteronomy 5:2

3The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.Select Deuteronomy 5:3

4The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the middle of the fire,Select Deuteronomy 5:4

5(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to show you the word of the LORD: for you were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying, ¶Select Deuteronomy 5:5

6I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.Select Deuteronomy 5:6

7You shall have none other gods before me.Select Deuteronomy 5:7

8You shall not make you any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:Select Deuteronomy 5:8

9You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,Select Deuteronomy 5:9

10And showing mercy to thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.Select Deuteronomy 5:10

11You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that takes his name in vain.Select Deuteronomy 5:11

12Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD your God has commanded you.Select Deuteronomy 5:12

13Six days you shall labor, and do all your work:Select Deuteronomy 5:13

14But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your ox, nor your ass, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates; that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as well as you.Select Deuteronomy 5:14

15And remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out there through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day. ¶Select Deuteronomy 5:15

16Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you; that your days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you.Select Deuteronomy 5:16

17You shall not kill.Select Deuteronomy 5:17

18Neither shall you commit adultery.Select Deuteronomy 5:18

19Neither shall you steal.Select Deuteronomy 5:19

20Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor.Select Deuteronomy 5:20

21Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s wife, neither shall you covet your neighbor’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is your neighbor’s. ¶Select Deuteronomy 5:21

22These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly in the mount out of the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them to me.Select Deuteronomy 5:22

23And it came to pass, when you heard the voice out of the middle of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;Select Deuteronomy 5:23

24And you said, Behold, the LORD our God has showed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the middle of the fire: we have seen this day that God does talk with man, and he lives.Select Deuteronomy 5:24

25Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.Select Deuteronomy 5:25

26For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as we have, and lived?Select Deuteronomy 5:26

27Go you near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak you to us all that the LORD our God shall speak to you; and we will hear it, and do it.Select Deuteronomy 5:27

28And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me; and the LORD said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you: they have well said all that they have spoken.Select Deuteronomy 5:28

29O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!Select Deuteronomy 5:29

30Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.Select Deuteronomy 5:30

31But as for you, stand you here by me, and I will speak to you all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.Select Deuteronomy 5:31

32You shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God has commanded you: you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.Select Deuteronomy 5:32

33You shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.Select Deuteronomy 5:33

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