Deuteronomy 5:22-33
1599 Geneva Bible
22 ¶ These words the Lord spake unto all your multitude in the mount of the midst of the fire, the cloud and the darkness, with a great voice, and [a]added no more thereto: and wrote them upon two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
23 And when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire) then ye came to me, all the chief of your tribes, and your Elders:
24 And ye said, Behold, the Lord our God hath showed us his glory and his greatness, and (A)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 (B)liveth.
25 Now therefore, why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the Lord our God anymore, we shall die.
26 For what [b]flesh was there ever that 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 saith: and declare thou unto us all that the Lord our God saith unto thee: (C)and we will hear it, and do it.
28 Then 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.
29 Oh [c]that there were such an heart in them to fear me, and to keep all my commandments always: that it might go well with them, and with their children forever.
30 Go, say unto them, Return you into your tents.
31 But stand thou here with me, and I will tell thee all the commandments, and the ordinances, and the laws, which thou shalt teach them: that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.
32 Take heed therefore, that ye do as the Lord your God hath commanded you: [d]turn not aside to the right hand nor to the left.
33 But walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may [e]live, and that it may go well with you: and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.
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- Deuteronomy 5:22 Teaching us by his example to be content with his word, and add nothing thereto.
- Deuteronomy 5:26 Or, man.
- Deuteronomy 5:29 He requireth of us nothing but obedience, showing also that of ourselves we are unwilling thereunto.
- Deuteronomy 5:32 Ye shall neither add nor diminish, Deut. 4:2.
- Deuteronomy 5:33 As by obedience, God giveth us all felicity: so of disobeying God proceed all our miseries.
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