Deut 5
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And Moses called all Israel, and said to them, Hear, Israel, the ordinances and judgements,
all that I speak in your ears this day, and you shall learn them, and observe to do
them.
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The Lord your God made a covenant with you in Choreb.
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The Lord did not make this covenant with your fathers, but with you: you are all here
alive this day.
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The Lord spoke to you face to face in the mountain out of the midst of the fire.
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And I stood between the Lord and you at that time to report to you the words of the
Lord, (because you were afraid before the fire, and you went not up to the mountain,)
saying,
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I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house
of bondage.
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You shall have no other gods before my face.
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You shall not make to yourself an image, nor likeness of any thing, whatever things
are in the heaven above, and whatever are in the earth beneath, and whatever are in
the waters under the earth.
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You shall not bow down to them, nor shall you serve them; for I am the Lord your God,
a jealous God, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and
fourth generation to them that hate me,
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and doing mercifully to Gr. to them that love, etc. to the number of thousands thousands of them that love me, and that keep
my commandments.
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You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord your God will
certainly not acquit him whom takes his name in vain.
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Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord your God commanded you.
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Six days you shall work, and you shall do all your works;
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but on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord your God: you shall do in it no
work, you, and your son, and your daughter, your man-servant, and your maid-servant,
your ox, and your ass, and all your cattle, and the stranger that sojourns in the
midst of you; that your man-servant may rest, and your maid, and your ox, as well
as you.
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And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your
God brought you out thence with a mighty hand, and a high arm: therefore the Lord
appointed you to keep the sabbath day and to sanctify it.
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Mt 15:4; Eph 6:1 Honour your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you; that it may
be well with you, and that you may live long upon the land, which the Lord your God
gives you.
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You shall not commit murder.
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You shall not commit adultery.
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You shall not steal.
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You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.
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You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife; you shall not covet your neighbour’s house,
nor his field, nor his man-servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any
beast of his, nor any thing that is your neighbour’s.
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These words the Lord spoke to all the assembly of you in the mountain out of the midst
of the fire— there was darkness, blackness, storm, a loud voice—and he added no more,
and he wrote them on two tables of stone, and he gave them to me.
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And it came to pass when you heard the voice out of the midst of the fire, for the
mountain burned with fire, that you came to me, even all the heads of your tribes,
and your elders:
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and you said, Behold, the Lord our God has shewn us his glory, and we have heard his
voice out of the midst of the fire: Or, by this day this day we have seen that God shall speak to man, and he shall live.
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And now let us not die, for this great fire will consume us, if we shall hear the
voice of the Lord our God any more, and we shall die.
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For what flesh is there which has heard the voice of the living God, speaking out
of the midst of the fire, as we have heard, and shall live?
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Do you draw near, and hear all that the Lord our God shall say, and you shall speak
to us all things whatever the Lord our God shall speak to you, and we will hear, and
do.
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And the Lord heard the voice of your words as you spoke to me; and the Lord said to
me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, even all things that they
have said to you. They have well said all that they have spoken.
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Gr. Who will give that there should be so an heart, etc. O that there were such a heart in them, that they should fear me
and keep my commands
always, that it might be well with them and with their sons for ever.
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Go, say to them, Return you to your houses;
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but stand you here with me, and I will tell you all the commands, and the ordinances,
and the judgements, which you shall teach them, and let them do so in the land which
I give them for an inheritance.
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And you shall take heed to do as the Lord your God commanded you; you shall not turn
aside to the right hand or to the left,
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according to all the way which the Lord your God commanded you to walk in it, that
he may give you rest; and that it may be well with you, and you may prolong your days
on the land which you shall inherit.