Beginning

5 Then Moses called all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the Ordinances and the Laws which I propose to you this day, so that you may learn them and be careful to observe them.

² “The LORD our God made a Covenant with us in Horeb.

³ “The LORD did not only make this Covenant with our fathers, but with us. That is, all of us here alive this day.

⁴ “The LORD talked with you face to face on the Mount, out of the midst of the fire.

⁵ “At that time, I stood between the LORD and you, to declare to you the Word of the LORD. For you were afraid at the sight of the fire and did not go up on the Mount. And He said,

⁶ ‘I am the LORD your God, Who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

⁷ ‘You shall have no other gods before My Face.

⁸ ‘You shall make no graven image for yourself, any likeness that is in Heaven above, which is in the Earth beneath, or that is in the waters under the Earth.

⁹ ‘You shall neither bow yourself to them, nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, even to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me,

¹⁰ ‘and showing mercy to thousands of those who love Me and keep My Commandments.

¹¹ ‘You shall not take the Name of the LORD your God in vain. For the LORD will not hold him guiltless who lifts up His Name in a frivolous way.

¹² ‘Keep the Sabbath day, to sanctify it, as the LORD your God has Commanded you.

¹³ ‘Six days you shall labor and shall do all your work.

¹⁴ ‘But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. You shall not do any work—you or your son or your daughter or your manservant or your maid or your ox or your donkey or any of your cattle or the stranger that is within your gates—so that your manservant and your maid may rest as well as you.

¹⁵ ‘For, remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt. And the LORD your God brought you out from there by a mighty Hand and an outstretched Arm. Therefore, the LORD your God Commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

¹⁶ ‘Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has Commanded you, so that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you upon the land which the LORD your God gives you.

¹⁷ ‘You shall not kill.

¹⁸ ‘Nor shall you commit adultery.

¹⁹ ‘Nor shall you steal.

²⁰ ‘Nor shall you bear false witness against your neighbor.

²¹ ‘Nor shall you covet your neighbor’s wife. Nor shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his manservant, his maid, his ox, his donkey or anything that your neighbor has.’

²² “These words the LORD spoke with a great Voice to all your multitude on the Mount—out of the midst of the fire, the cloud and the darkness—and added no more. And He wrote them upon two Tablets of stone and delivered them to me.

²³ “And when you heard the Voice out of the midst of the darkness (for the mountain burned with fire), then you came to me, all the chiefs of your tribes, and your elders,

²⁴ “and you said, ‘Behold, the LORD our God has shown 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 talks with man, and he lives.

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 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 ‘You go near and hear all that the LORD our God says and declare to us all that the LORD our God says to you. And we will hear it and do it.’

²⁸ “Then the LORD heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me. And the LORD said to me, ‘I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They have well said all that they have spoken.

²⁹ ‘Oh that there were such a heart in them to fear Me, and to keep all My Commandments always, so that it might go well with them and with their children forever.

³⁰ ‘Go. Say to them, “Return into your tents.”

³¹ ‘But you stand here with Me. And I will tell you all the Commandments and the Ordinances and the Laws which you shall teach them, so that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.

³² ‘Be careful, therefore, to do as the LORD your God has Commanded you. Do not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

³³ ‘Walk in all the ways which the LORD your God has Commanded you, so that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.’”

6 “These, now, are the Commandments, Ordinances, and Laws, which the LORD your God Commanded to teach, so that you might do them in the land to which you go to possess,

² “so that you might fear the LORD your God and keep all His Ordinances and his Commandments which I command you—you and your son and your son’s son, all the days of your life—so that your days may be prolonged.

³ “Hear, therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do it, so that it may go well with you, and that you may increase mightily in the land that flows with milk and honey, as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you.

⁴ “Hear, O Israel, The LORD our God is LORD only,

⁵ “and you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

⁶ “And these words which I command you this day shall be in your heart.

⁷ “And you shall repeat them continually to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and as you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

⁸ “And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand. And they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

⁹ “Also, you shall write them upon the posts of your house and upon your gates.

¹⁰ “And when the LORD your God has brought you into the land which He swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to you, with great and beautiful cities which you did not build,

¹¹ “and houses full of all manner of goods which you did not fill, wells dug which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant. And you have eaten and are full.

¹² “Beware, lest you forget the LORD, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

¹³ “You shall fear the LORD your God, and serve Him, and shall swear by His Name.

¹⁴ “You shall not walk after other gods, the gods of the people who are all around you

¹⁵ “(for the LORD your God is a jealous God among you), lest the wrath of the LORD your God be kindled against you and destroy you from the face of the Earth.

¹⁶ “You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted Him in Massah.

¹⁷ “You shall diligently keep the Commandments of the LORD your God, and His Testimonies and His Ordinances which He has commanded you.

¹⁸ “And you shall do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that you may prosper, and that you may go in and possess that good land which the LORD swore to your fathers,

¹⁹ “to cast out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said.

²⁰ “When your son shall ask you in the future, saying, ‘What do these Testimonies and Ordinances and Laws which the LORD our God has Commanded you mean?’

²¹ “Then you shall say to your son, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. But the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty Hand.

²² ‘And the LORD showed great and unpleasant signs and wonders before our eyes, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household,

²³ ‘and brought us out from there, to bring us in and to give us the land which He swore to our fathers.

²⁴ ‘Therefore, the LORD has Commanded us to do all these Ordinances, to fear the LORD our God, so that it may go well with us, and that He may preserve us alive at the present time.

²⁵ ‘Moreover, this shall be our righteousness before the LORD our God, if we take heed to keep all these Commandments, as He has Commanded us.’

7 “When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land to which you go to possess, and shall root out many nations before you—the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you—

² “and the LORD your God shall give them before you, then you shall strike them. You shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them or have compassion on them.

³ “Nor shall you make marriages with them or give your daughter to his son or take his daughter to your son.

⁴ ‘For they will cause your son to turn away from Me, and to serve other gods.’ Then the wrath of the LORD will grow hot against you and destroy you suddenly.

⁵ “But you shall deal with them like this: You shall overthrow their altars and break down their pillars. And you shall cut down their groves and burn their graven images with fire.

⁶ “For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a precious people to Himself, above all people who are upon the Earth.

⁷ “The LORD did not set His love upon you or choose you because you were more in number than any people (for you were the fewest of all people)

⁸ “but because the LORD loved you and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn to your fathers. The LORD has brought you out by a mighty Hand and delivered you out of the house of bondage from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt,

⁹ “so that you may know that the LORD your God, He is God. He is the faithful God Who keeps Covenant and mercy to those who love Him and keep His Commandments, to a thousand generations.

¹⁰ “And He rewards those who hate Him to their face, to bring them to destruction. He will not hesitate to reward him who hates Him, to his face.

¹¹ “Therefore, keep the Commandments and the Ordinances and the Laws which I command you this day, to do them.

¹² “For if you hear these Laws, and observe and do them, then the LORD your God shall keep the Covenant with you, and the mercy, which He swore to your fathers.

¹³ “And He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your corn and your wine, your oil, the increase of your cattle and the flocks of your sheep, in the land which He swore to give to your fathers.

¹⁴ “You shall be blessed above all people. There shall be neither male nor female barren among you, nor among your cattle.

¹⁵ “Moreover, the LORD will take away all infirmities from you, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt (which you know) upon you. But He will send them upon all who hate you.

¹⁶ “You shall, therefore, consume all people which the LORD your God shall give you. Your eye shall not spare them, nor shall you serve their gods. For that shall be your destruction.

¹⁷ “If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are more than me. How can I cast them out?’

¹⁸ “You shall not fear them. Remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.

¹⁹ “The great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs and wonders, and the mighty Hand and outstretched Arm, whereby the LORD your God brought you out. So shall the LORD your God do to all the people whose face you fear.

²⁰ “Moreover, the LORD your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left (and hiding themselves from you) are destroyed.

²¹ “You shall not fear them. For the LORD your God is among you, a God mighty and revered.

²² “And the LORD your God will root out these nations before you, little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the wild animals increase upon you.

²³ “But the LORD your God shall give them before you, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they are brought to nothing.

²⁴ “And He shall deliver their kings into your hand. And you shall destroy their name from under Heaven. There shall be no man able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.

²⁵ “You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, or take it for yourself, lest you are ensnared by it. For it is an abomination before the LORD your God.

²⁶ “Therefore, do not bring such an abomination into your house, lest you be accursed, like it is. Utterly abhor it and count it most abominable. For it is accursed.”