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Chapter 5 |
| 1 | And Moses
called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and
judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and
keep, and do them. |
| 2 | The LORD our God made a covenant with us in
Horeb. |
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The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us,
even us, who are all of us here alive this day. |
| 4 | The LORD
talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
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| 5 | (I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to show you the word of
the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the
mount;) saying, |
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6 | I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the
land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. |
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7 | Thou shalt have none other
gods before me. |
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8 | Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any
likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath,
or that is in the waters beneath the earth: |
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9 | Thou shalt not bow down
thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and
fourth generation of them that hate me, |
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10 | And showing mercy unto
thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. |
| 11 | Thou
shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold
him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. |
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12 | Keep the sabbath day to
sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. |
| 13 | Six days
thou shalt labor, and do all thy work: |
| 14 | But the seventh day is the
sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy
son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox,
nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy
gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
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| 15 | And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the
LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched
out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath
day. |
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Honor thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath
commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with
thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. |
| 17 | Thou shalt
not kill. |
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| Neither shalt thou commit adultery. |
| 19 | Neither
shalt thou steal. |
| 20 | Neither shalt thou bear false witness
against thy neighbor. |
| 21 | Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbor's
wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbor's house, his field, or his
manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy
neighbor's. |
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22 | These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly
in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick
darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two
tables of stone, and delivered them unto me. |
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23 | And it came to pass,
when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did
burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes,
and your elders; |
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24 | And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath showed
us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of
the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he
liveth. |
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| Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will
consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall
die. |
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For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of
the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and
lived? |
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| Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall
say: and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee;
and we will hear it, and do it. |
| 28 | And the LORD heard the voice
of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard
the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they
have well said all that they have spoken. |
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29 | O that there were such an
heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always,
that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever! |
| 30 |
Go say to them, Get you into your tents again. |
| 31 | But as for
thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments,
and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may
do them in the land which I give them to possess it. |
| 32 | Ye shall
observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not
turn aside to the right hand or to the left. |
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33 | Ye shall walk in all
the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that
it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye
shall possess. |
