Chapter 5
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Moses called to all Israel and said to them, "Hear, Israel, the statutes and the judgments that I am speaking in your ears today, which you shall teach and which you shall keep, to do them."
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The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
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The LORD did not cut this covenant with our fathers, but with us—these here today, all of us who are alive.
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The LORD spoke with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire.
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I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up on the mountain, saying.
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I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves.
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You shall have no other gods before me.
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You shall not make for yourself a statue, any image which is in the heavens above or which is on the earth below or which is in the waters below the earth.
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You 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 sons and on the third and fourth generations of those who hate me.
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and showing steadfast love to thousands, to those who love me and keep my commandments.
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You shall not bear the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not acquit the one who bears his name in vain.
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Keep the Sabbath day to consecrate it, just as the LORD your God commanded you.
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Six days you shall labor and do all your work.
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The seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. 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 sojourner who is within your gates—so that your male servant and your female servant may rest as you do.
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Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out of there with a strong hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
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Honor your father and your mother, just as the LORD your God commanded you, so that your days may be long and so that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
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You shall not 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 answer against your neighbor as a false witness.
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You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. You shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, his servant, his maidservant, his ox, his donkey, and everything that belongs to your neighbor.
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These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly at the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness—with a great voice. And he added no more. And he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
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And as you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness while the mountain burned with fire, you approached me—all heads of your tribes and your elders.
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And you said, "Look, the LORD our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice from the midst of the fire this day. We have seen that God speaks with humanity yet lives."
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And now why do we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we continue to hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we will die.
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For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
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You approach and hear all that the LORD our God says. Then you speak to us all that the LORD our God speaks to you, and we will hear and do it.
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And the LORD heard the sound of your words when you spoke to me, and the LORD said to me, "I have heard the sound of the words of this people which they spoke to you. They have done well all that they have spoken."
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Oh that their heart would be like this toward me, to fear me and to keep all my commandments always, so that it might go well for them and for their children forever.
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Go, say to them, "Return to your tents."
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And you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandments and the statutes and the judgments that you shall teach them, so that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.
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You shall take care to do just as the LORD your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left.
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You 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 live long in the land that you shall possess.