Chapter 5
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 carefully and observe them.
2AO 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.
4A | O spoke with you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.
5At that time, I was standing between AO and you to declare to you the word of AO because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain.
6And He said: “I am AO your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
7You shall have no other gods before Me.
8{You shall} not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.
9You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, AO your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth [generations] of those who hate Me,
10but showing loving devotion to a thousand [generations] of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
11You shall not take the name of AO your God in vain for AO will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.
12Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy as AO your God has commanded you.
13Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
14but the seventh day is a Sabbath to AO your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son [or] daughter, nor your manservant [or] maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do.
15Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and that AO your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. That is why AO your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
16Honor your father and your mother as AO has commanded you so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that AO your God is giving you.
17You shall not murder.
18You shall not commit adultery.
19You shall not steal.
20You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
21You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field or his manservant or maidservant or his ox or donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
22AO spoke these commandments to your whole assembly on the mountain out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness in a loud voice. He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
23And when you heard the voice out of the darkness while the mountain was blazing with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me
24and you said, “Behold, AO our God has shown us His glory and greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the fire. Today we have seen that a man can live [even if] God speaks with [him].
25But now why should we die? For this great fire will consume us, and we will die, if we hear the voice of AO any longer.
26For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire as we [have] and survived?
27Go near and listen to all that AO our God says. Then you can tell us everything AO our God tells you; we will listen and obey.”
28And AO heard the words you spoke to me and [He] said to me, “I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken.
29If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.
30Go and tell them: ‘Return to your tents.’
31But you stand here with Me that I may speak to you all the commandments and statutes and ordinances you are to teach them to follow in the land that I am giving them to possess.”
32So be careful to do as AO your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left.
33You must walk in all the ways that AO your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong [your] days in the land that you will possess.