5:1 At that time Moses called out to all Israel:¹ Listen, Israel, to the statutes and decrees that I am about to deliver to you² today; hear them and be careful to keep them. 5:2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. 5:3 He³ did not make this covenant with our ancestors but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now. 5:4 The LORD spoke face to face with you at the mountain, from the midst of the fire 5:5 (I was standing between the LORD and you then⁴ in order to reveal to you the message of the LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain), and said:

5:6 “I am the LORD your God, he who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the place of slaves. 5:7 There must not be any other gods for you in my place.⁵ 5:8 You must not make for yourself an image, any kind of a likeness of anything in heaven above, earth below, or the waters beneath.⁶ 5:9 You must not worship nor serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, responding to⁷ the transgression of fathers by dealing with offspring to the third and fourth generations of the ones rejecting⁸ me, 5:10 but showing covenant faithfulness⁹ to the thousands¹⁰ who choose¹¹ me and keep my¹² commandments. 5:11 You must not put to use¹³ the name of the LORD your God for worthless purposes,¹⁴ for the LORD will not exonerate anyone who abuses his name that way.¹⁵ 5:12 Be careful to set apart¹⁶ the sabbath day just as the LORD your God has commanded. 5:13 You shall work and do all your tasks in six days, 5:14 But the seventh day is the sabbath¹⁷ of the LORD your God. You must not do any work, you, your son, your daughter, your male slave, your female slave, your ox, your donkey, any other animal, and the foreigner who lives with you¹⁸ so that your male and female slaves, like yourself, might have rest. 5:15 You must recall that you were slaves¹⁹ in the land of Egypt and that the LORD brought you out of there by might and power; therefore, the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the sabbath day. 5:16 Honor²⁰ your father and your mother just as the LORD your God has told²¹ you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it might go well with you in the land which he²² is about to give you. 5:17 You must not murder.²³ 5:18 You must not commit adultery. 5:19 You must not steal. 5:20 You must not offer false testimony with respect to your fellow man.²⁴ 5:21 You must not desire²⁵ another man’s²⁶ wife, nor should you crave his²⁷ house, his field, his male and female servants, his ox, his donkey, or anything else he owns.”²⁸

5:22 All these things the LORD said to your entire assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the darkness with a loud voice, and that was all.²⁹ And he inscribed the words³⁰ on two stone tablets and gave them to me. 5:23 Then, when you heard the voice from amidst the darkness while the mountain was ablaze you approached me—all of your tribal leaders and elders—5:24 And you said, “the LORD our God has shown us his great glory³¹ and we have heard him from the midst of the fire. It is now clear to us³² that God can speak to human beings and they can keep living. 5:25 Now, therefore, why should we die, because this intense fire will consume us. If we keep hearing the voice of the LORD our God we will certainly die. 5:26 Who is there from all the human race³³ who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from amidst the fire as we have and has lived? 5:27 Please get near so that you can hear everything the LORD our God is saying and then tell us whatever he³⁴ says to you; then we will pay attention and do it.” 5:28 When the LORD heard you³⁵ speaking to me he said to me, “I have heard all that these people have said to you—they have spoken well. 5:29 Would that it might be their desire³⁶ to fear me and keep all my commandments forever so that it may go well with them and their descendants eternally. 5:30 Go and tell them, Return to your tents! 5:31 But as for you, remain here with me so I can declare to you all the commandments,³⁷ statutes, and ordinances that you are to teach them so that they might carry them out in the land that I am about to give them as an inheritance.”³⁸ 5:32 Be careful, therefore, to do exactly what the LORD your God has commanded you; do not turn right or left. 5:33 Walk just as³⁹ he⁴⁰ has said⁴¹ so that you might live, that it might go well with you, and that you might prolong your days in the land you are going to possess.