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Deuteronomy 5–12

5 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. aThe Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. The Lord bmade not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. The Lord talked with you cface to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire, d(I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to shew you the word of the Lord: for eye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,

fI am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. Thou shalt have none other gods before me. 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: 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, 10 gAnd shewing 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. 12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. 13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: 14 But hthe 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. 15 iAnd remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence kthrough a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day. 16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; lthat thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 17 mThou shalt not kill. 18 mNeither shalt thou commit adultery. 19 Neither shalt thou steal. 20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour. 21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

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 nhe wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me. 23 And it came to pass, owhen 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; 24 And ye said, Behold, the Lord our God hath shewed us his glory and phis greatness, and qwe have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he rliveth. 25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: sif we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, then we shall die. 26 tFor 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? 27 Go thou near, and hear all that the Lord our God shall say: and uspeak 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: xthey have well said all that they have spoken. 29 yO that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, zthat 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 aI 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: bye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 33 cYe shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and dthat it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

6 Now these are athe commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: That bthou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; cand that thy days may be prolonged. Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; cthat it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, das the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in ethe land that floweth with milk and honey. fHear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: And gthou shalt love the Lord thy God hwith all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy hmight. And ithese words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And kthou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. lAnd thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. mAnd thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates. 10 And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, nwhich thou buildedst not, 11 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; owhen thou shalt have eaten and be full; 12 Then beware lest thou forget the Lord, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 13 Thou shalt pfear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and qshalt swear by his name. 14 Ye shall not rgo after other gods, sof the gods of the people which are round about you; 15 (For tthe Lord thy God is a jealous God among you) ulest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth. 16 xYe shall not tempt the Lord your God, yas ye tempted him in Massah. 17 Ye shall zdiligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee. 18 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord: athat it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, 19 bTo cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath spoken. 20 And cwhen thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you? 21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh’s bondmen in Egypt; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt dwith a mighty hand: 22 eAnd the Lord shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes: 23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers. 24 And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, fto fear the Lord our God, gfor our good always, that hhe might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. 25 And iit shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.

7 When the aLord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, bthe Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations cgreater and mightier than thou; And when the Lord thy God shall ddeliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and eutterly destroy them; fthou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: gNeither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: hso will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall idestroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down itheir groves, and burn their graven images with fire. kFor thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a lspecial people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were mthe fewest of all people: But nbecause the Lord loved you, and because he would keep othe oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out pwith a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, qthe faithful God, rwhich keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; 10 And srepayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: the will not be slack to him that hateth him…

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