1Moses sent for all the Israelites. Here is what he said to them. Israel, listen to me. Here are the rules and laws I’m announcing to you today. Learn them well. Be sure to obey them.2The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Mount Horeb.3He didn’t make it only with our people of long ago. He also made it with us. In fact, he made it with all of us who are alive here today.4The LORD spoke to you face to face. His voice came out of the fire on the mountain.5At that time I stood between the LORD and you. I announced to you the LORD’s message. I did it because you were afraid of the fire. You didn’t go up the mountain. The LORD said,6‘I am the LORD your God. I brought you out of Egypt. That is the land where you were slaves.7‘Do not put any other gods in place of me.8‘Do not make statues of gods that look like anything in the sky or on the earth or in the waters.9Do not bow down to them or worship them. I am the LORD your God. I want you to worship only me. I cause the sins of the parents to affect their children. I will cause the sins of those who hate me to affect even their grandchildren and great-grandchildren.10But for all time to come I show love to all those who love me and keep my commandments.11‘Do not misuse the name of the LORD your God. The LORD will find guilty anyone who misuses his name.12‘Keep the Sabbath day holy. Do this just as the LORD your God has commanded you.13Do all your work in six days.14But the seventh day is a sabbath to honour the LORD your God. Do not do any work on that day. The same command applies to your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, your oxen, your donkeys and your other animals. It also applies to any outsiders who live in your towns. I want your male and female servants to rest, just as you do.15Remember that you were slaves in Egypt. The LORD your God reached out his mighty hand and powerful arm and brought you out of there. So the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day holy.16‘Honour your father and mother, just as the LORD your God has commanded you. Then you will live a long time in the land he is giving you. And things will go well with you there.17‘Do not murder.18‘Do not commit adultery.19‘Do not steal.20‘Do not be a false witness against your neighbour.21‘Do not want to have your neighbour’s wife. Do not desire anything your neighbour owns. Do not desire to have your neighbour’s house or land, male or female servant, ox or donkey.’22These are the commandments the LORD announced in a loud voice to your whole community. He gave them to you there on the mountain. He spoke out of the fire, cloud and deep darkness. He didn’t add anything else. Then he wrote the commandments on two stone tablets. And he gave them to me.23The mountain was blazing with fire. You heard the voice coming out of the darkness. So your elders and all the leaders of your tribes came to me.24You said, ‘The LORD our God has shown us his glory and majesty. We have heard his voice coming out of the fire. Today we have seen that a person can still stay alive even if God speaks with them.25But why should we die? This great fire will burn us up. We’ll die if we hear the voice of the LORD our God again.26We have heard the voice of the living God. We’ve heard him speaking out of the fire. Has any other human being ever heard him speak like that and stayed alive?27Go near and listen to everything the LORD our God says. Then tell us what he tells you. We will listen and obey.’28The LORD heard you when you spoke to me. He said to me, ‘I have heard what these people said to you. Everything they said was good.29But I wish they would always have respect for me in their hearts. I wish they would always obey all my commands. Then things would go well with them and their children for ever.30‘Go and tell them to return to their tents.31But you stay here with me. Then I will give you all my commands, rules and laws. You must teach the people to obey them in the land I am giving them as their very own.’32So be careful to do what the LORD your God has commanded you. Don’t turn away from his commands to the right or the left.33Live exactly as the LORD your God has commanded you to live. Then you will enjoy life in the land you will soon own. Things will go well with you there. You will live there for a long time.
Deuteronomy 5
English Standard Version
The Ten Commandments
1And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.2The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. (Ex 19:5; De 4:23)3Not with our fathers did the Lord make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today. (Heb 8:9)4The Lord spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, (Ex 33:11; Nu 14:14; De 34:10; Jud 6:22)5while I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the Lord. For you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the mountain. He said: (Ex 19:16; Ex 20:18; Ex 20:21; Ex 24:2; Ga 3:19)6“‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. (Ex 20:2)7“You shall have no other gods before[1] me.8“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.9You shall not bow down to them or 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 those who hate me,10but showing steadfast love to thousands[2] of those who love me and keep my commandments. (Ex 20:6; Jer 32:18)11“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.12“Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you.13Six days you shall labor and do all your work,14but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. (Ex 16:29; Ex 23:12; Heb 4:4)15You shall remember that you were a slave[3] in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. (De 4:34; De 15:15; De 16:12; De 24:18; De 24:22)16“Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. (De 4:40)17“You shall not murder.[4] (Mt 5:21; Mt 5:27; Lu 18:20; Jas 2:11)18“And you shall not commit adultery. (De 5:17)19“And you shall not steal.20“And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.21“And you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.’22“These words the Lord spoke to all your assembly at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and he added no more. And he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. (Ex 24:12; De 4:11; De 9:10)23And as soon as you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders. (De 4:12)24And you said, ‘Behold, the Lord our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire. This day we have seen God speak with man, and man still live. (Ex 19:19; De 3:24; De 4:33)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, we shall die. (De 18:16)26For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire as we have, and has still lived? (De 5:24)27Go near and hear all that the Lord our God will say, and speak to us all that the Lord our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it.’ (Ex 20:19)28“And the Lord heard your words, when you spoke to me. And the Lord said to me, ‘I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They are right in all that they have spoken. (De 18:17)29Oh that they had such a heart as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants[5] forever! (De 4:40; De 32:29; Ps 81:13; Isa 48:18; Mt 23:37; Lu 19:42)30Go and say to them, “Return to your tents.”31But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you the whole commandment and the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.’ (Ga 3:19)32You shall be careful therefore to do as the Lord your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. (De 17:20; De 28:14; Jos 1:7; Jos 23:6; 2Ki 22:2; Pr 4:27)33You shall walk in all the way that the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess. (De 4:40; De 10:12; De 30:16; Jer 7:23; Lu 1:6)