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Deuteronomy 4:44-5:33 — The Ten Commandments Reviewed

Deut.4.44-5.33

⁴⁴This is the law that Moses set before the children of Israel. ⁴⁵These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances that Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt, ⁴⁶beyond the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel defeated when they came out of Egypt. ⁴⁷They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, ⁴⁸from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Arnon Valley, as far as Mount Sion (that is, Hermon), ⁴⁹and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the slopes of Pisgah.

Chapter 5

¹Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: 'Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances that I am speaking in your hearing today, that you may learn them and be careful to do them. ²The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. ³The LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, we who are all of us here alive today. ⁴The LORD spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, ⁵(I was standing 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 the mountain), saying: ⁶'I am the LORD 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. ⁸You 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, and on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate me, ¹⁰but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. ¹¹You 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. ¹²Observe 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 resident foreigner who is within your gates , so that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. ¹⁵You shall remember that you were a slave 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. ¹⁶Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you, so that your days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. ¹⁷You shall not murder. ¹⁸And you shall not commit adultery. ¹⁹And you shall not steal. ²⁰And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. ²¹And 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 belongs to your neighbor.' ²²These 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. 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. ²⁴And you said, 'Behold, the LORD 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 man still lives. ²⁵Now therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer, we shall die. ²⁶For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire as we have, and has lived? ²⁷Go near and hear all that the LORD our God will say, and you speak to us all that the LORD our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it.' 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 spoken well in all that they have said. ²⁹Oh that they had such a heart as this, to fear me and to keep all my commandments always, so that it might go well with them and with their children forever! ³⁰Go and say to them, “Return to your tents.” ³¹But you, stand here by me, and I will speak to you the whole commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances that you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.' 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. ³³You shall walk in all the way that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that you shall possess.

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4/11/2026

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