1 GLT Then Moses called to all Israel and said to them,“Listen, Israel, to the statutes and the ordinances that I will speak in your ears today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them. BSB BSB: Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I declare in your hearing this day. Learn them and observe them carefully.
2 GLT Yahweh our God cut a covenant with us at Horeb. BSB BSB: The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
3 GLT Yahweh did not cut this covenant with our fathers, but with us, those of us here today, all who are living. BSB BSB: He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.
4 GLT Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain, from the midst of the fire, BSB BSB: The LORD spoke with you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.
5 GLT — I stood between Yahweh and between you at that time, to reveal to you the word of Yahweh. For you were afraid of the face of the fire, and you did not go up the mountain— saying, BSB BSB: At that time I was standing between the LORD and you to declare to you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain. And He said:
6 GLT I{ am} Yahweh your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery. BSB BSB: “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
7 GLT There shall not be for you other gods above my face. BSB BSB: You shall have no other gods before Me.
8 GLT Do not make for yourself a carved figure of any likeness that{ is} in heaven above or that{ is} in the earth beneath or that{ is} in the water under the earth. BSB BSB: You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.
9 GLT You shall not bow down to them, and you shall not serve them, for I, Yahweh your God,{ am} a jealous God. I visit the iniquity of the fathers on the sons, and on the third and on the fourth{ generation} of the haters of me, BSB BSB: You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
10 GLT But I show covenant faithfulness to thousands, to lovers of me and keepers of my commandments. BSB BSB: but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
11 GLT Do not lift up the name of Yahweh your God with emptiness, for Yahweh will not leave unpunished he who lifts up his name with emptiness. BSB BSB: You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.
12 GLT Keeping the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as Yahweh your God commanded you. BSB BSB: Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.
13 GLT Six days you may labor and do all your work. BSB BSB: Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
14 GLT but the seventh day{ is} a Sabbath for Yahweh your God. Do not do any work— you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant or your ox or your donkey or any of your cattle or a foreigner who{ is} within your gates, so that your male servant and your female servant can rest like you. BSB BSB: but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do.
15 GLT And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Therefore, Yahweh your God has commanded you to celebrate the Sabbath day. BSB BSB: Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
16 GLT Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God has commanded you, so that you may prolong your days and so that it may go well with you on the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you. BSB BSB: Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
17 GLT Do not murder. BSB BSB: You shall not murder.
18 GLT And do not commit adultery. BSB BSB: You shall not commit adultery.
19 GLT And do not steal. BSB BSB: You shall not steal.
20 GLT And do not testify against your neighbor false testimony. BSB BSB: You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
21 GLT And do not desire the wife of your neighbor, and you shall not covet the house of your neighbor, his field, and his male servant and his female servant, his ox and his donkey and anything that{ is} of your neighbor. BSB BSB: You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
22 GLT These words Yahweh spoke{ in} a great voice to all your assembly on the mountain in the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the gloom, and he did not add{ more}. And he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. BSB BSB: The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
23 GLT And it happened, when you heard the voice in the midst of the darkness, and the mountain was burning with fire, then you approached me— all the heads of your tribes and your elders. BSB BSB: And when you heard the voice out of the darkness while the mountain was blazing with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me,
24 GLT And you said,‘Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice from the midst of the fire. This day we have seen that God speaks to man, yet he lives. BSB BSB: and you said, “Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the fire. Today we have seen that a man can live even if God speaks with him.
25 GLT And now, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us if we continue anymore to hear the voice of Yahweh our God, and we will die. BSB BSB: But now, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us, and we will die, if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer.
26 GLT For who{ is there of} all flesh that has heard the voice of the living God speak from the midst of the fire like us and has lived? BSB BSB: For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and survived?
27 GLT You approach and listen to everything that Yahweh our God says, and speak to us everything that Yahweh our God says to you, and we will listen and obey.’ BSB BSB: Go near and listen to all that the LORD our God says. Then you can tell us everything the LORD our God tells you; we will listen and obey.”
28 GLT And Yahweh heard the sound of your words when you spoke to me. And Yahweh said to me,‘I have heard the sound of the words of this people that they spoke to you. All that they have spoken is good. BSB BSB: And the LORD heard the words you spoke to me, and He said to me, “I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken.
29 GLT Who will give and have this heart in them, to fear me and keep all my commandments all the days, so that it will be well for them and for their sons forever? BSB BSB: If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.
30 GLT Go say to them,“Return yourselves to your tents.” BSB BSB: Go and tell them: ‘Return to your tents.’
31 GLT But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandment and the statutes and the ordinances that you will teach them and they will do in the land that I am giving to them to possess it.’ BSB BSB: But you stand here with Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments and statutes and ordinances you are to teach them to follow in the land that I am giving them to possess.”
32 GLT And you shall keep{ them}, doing as Yahweh your God has commanded you. Do not turn aside, right nor left. BSB BSB: So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left.
33 GLT In all the ways that Yahweh your God has commanded you, you shall walk so that you might live, and goodness{ might be} for you, and you might prolong{ your} days in the land that you will possess. BSB BSB: You must walk in all the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.
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