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    Deuteronomy 5

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    The people discover that a man can live after hearing God speak, and then, with admirable briskness, ask why they should not die if He carries on.

    A covenant spoken from the firevv. 1–22

    Moses summons all Israel and places the covenant in the hearing of those alive that day: not merely a report handed down, but something made with the gathered people themselves. The LORD speaks with them “face to face” from the fire, though Moses is standing between them because fear has kept them from going up the mountain—a face-to-face encounter with Moses rather prominently in the middle. Then come the commandments: no rival gods, no idols, no misuse of the LORD’s name, and a Sabbath broad enough to include children, servants, livestock, and the foreigner within the gates. Egypt returns as the reason for the Sabbath, while the list proceeds briskly through parents, murder, adultery, theft, false witness, and coveting. The LORD speaks all this from fire, cloud, and deep darkness, adds nothing more, and gives the words to Moses on two stone tablets.

    The sensible request at the mountainvv. 23–27

    When the mountain is blazing and the voice comes out of the darkness, the heads of the tribes and the elders approach Moses. They report that they have seen the LORD’s glory and greatness, and make the remarkable observation that a man can live after God speaks with him. Their next breath is less triumphant: why should they die, they ask, if they hear the voice any longer? So Moses is appointed to go near, listen to everything, and bring it back. The arrangement has the neatness of a deputation, though the original meeting place is still on fire.

    Return to the tentsvv. 28–33

    The LORD hears the people’s words and says they have done well in speaking them, while wishing that the same heart might remain with them always. The people are sent back to their tents; Moses stays behind to receive the commandments, statutes, and ordinances for the land ahead. The chapter ends with a straight road of instruction: neither right nor left, but all the ways commanded by the LORD, towards life, prosperity, and prolonged days in the land Israel will possess.

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    1. Deut 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 and observe them carefully.

    2. Deut 5:2The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

    3. Deut 5:3He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.

    4. Deut 5:4The LORD spoke with you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.

    5. Deut 5:5At 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:

    6. Deut 5:6“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

    7. Deut 5:7You shall have no other gods before Me.

    8. Deut 5:8You 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.

    9. Deut 5:9You 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,

    10. Deut 5:10but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

    11. Deut 5:11You 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.

    12. Deut 5:12Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.

    13. Deut 5:13Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

    14. Deut 5:14but 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.

    15. Deut 5:15Remember 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 an outstretched arm. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

    16. Deut 5:16Honor 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 that the LORD your God is giving you.

    17. Deut 5:17You shall not murder.

    18. Deut 5:18You shall not commit adultery.

    19. Deut 5:19You shall not steal.

    20. Deut 5:20You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

    21. Deut 5:21You 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.”

    22. Deut 5:22The 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.

    23. Deut 5:23And 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,

    24. Deut 5:24and 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 a man can live even if God speaks with him.

    25. Deut 5:25But 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.

    26. Deut 5:26For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and survived?

    27. Deut 5:27Go 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.”

    28. Deut 5:28And 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.

    29. Deut 5:29If 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.

    30. Deut 5:30Go and tell them: ‘Return to your tents.’

    31. Deut 5:31But 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.”

    32. Deut 5:32So 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.

    33. Deut 5:33You 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 that you will possess.

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    • 6Exodus 20:2–17“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
    • 16Exodus 20:12Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
    • 17Exodus 20:13You shall not murder.
    • 8Exodus 20:4You 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.
    • 21Exodus 20:17You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
    • 20Exodus 20:16You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
    • 11Exodus 20:7You 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.
    • 12Exodus 20:8–11Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
    • 7Exodus 20:3You shall have no other gods before Me.
    • 18Exodus 20:14You shall not commit adultery.
    • 19Exodus 20:15You shall not steal.
    • 16Ephesians 6:1–3Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
    • 16Colossians 3:20Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
    • 10Romans 8:28And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
    • 21Romans 13:9The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
    • 15Deuteronomy 5:6“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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