CHAPTER 5
Then 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
and observe
them carefully.
At that
time
I
was standing
between
the LORD
and you
to declare
to you
the word
of the LORD,
because
you were afraid
of
the fire
and would not
go up
the mountain.
And He said:
You shall not
make
for yourself
an idol
in the form
of anything
in the heavens
above
or on the earth
beneath
or in the waters
below.
You shall not
bow down
to them
or worship them;
for
I,
the LORD
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,
but showing
loving devotion
to a thousand generations
of those who love Me
and keep
My commandments.
You shall not
take
the name
of the LORD
your God
in vain,
for
the LORD
will not
leave anyone unpunished
who
takes
His name
in vain.
but the seventh
day
is a Sabbath
to the LORD
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.
Remember
that
you were
a slave
in the land
of Egypt,
and that the LORD
your God
brought you out
of there
with a mighty
hand
and outstretched
arm.
That is why
the LORD
your God
has commanded
you to keep
the Sabbath
day.
Honor
your father
and your mother,
as
the LORD
your God
has commanded you,
so that
your days
may be long
and that
it may go well
with you
in
the land
the LORD
your God
is giving
you.
You 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.”
The LORD
spoke
these
commandments
in a loud
voice
to
your whole
assembly
out of
the fire,
the cloud,
and the deep darkness
on the mountain;
He added
nothing more.
And He wrote them
on
two
tablets
of stone
and gave
them to me.
And 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,
and you said,
“Behold,
the LORD
our God
has shown
us His glory
and greatness,
and we have heard
His voice
out of
the fire.
Today
we have seen
that
God
can speak
with
a man,
yet the man lives.
But now,
why
should we die?
For
this
great
fire
will consume us,
and we will die,
if
we
hear
the voice
of the LORD
our God
any longer.
For
who
of all
flesh
has heard
the voice
of the living
God
speaking
out of
the fire,
as we have,
and survived?
Go near
and listen
to all
that
the LORD
our God
says.
Then you
can tell
us everything
the LORD
our God
tells you;
we will listen
and obey.”
And the LORD
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.
If only
they had
such
a heart
to fear
Me
and keep
all
My commandments
always,
so that
it might be well
with them
and their children
forever.
But 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
I
am giving
them
to possess.”
So be careful
to do
as
the LORD
your God
has commanded you;
you are not
to turn aside
to the right
or to the left.
You must walk
in all
the ways
that
the LORD
your God
has commanded you,
so that
you may live
and prosper
and prolong
your days
in the land
you will possess.