Deuteronomio 5

The Ten Words

¹Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, Israel, the statutes and rulings that I am announcing to you today. Learn them and be careful to do them. ²The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. ³The LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers; he made it with us, the ones here today, all of us still alive.^{a 4}On the mountain the LORD spoke with you face to face, out of the fire. ⁵I was standing between the LORD and you at that time, to make known to you the word of the LORD, since you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain. He said:

⁶‘I am the LORD your God. I brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house where you were slaves. ⁷You shall have no other gods besides me. ⁸You shall not make yourself a carved idol in the form of anything in the heavens overhead, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath the earth. ⁹You shall neither bow to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God. I bring the guilt of fathers upon their children, upon the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ¹⁰but to thousands who love me and keep my commandments I show faithful love.^b

¹¹You shall not use the name of the LORD your God for what is false or worthless, for the LORD will not let anyone go unpunished who uses his name that way.

¹²Keep the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. ¹³You have six days to labor and do all your work, ¹⁴but the seventh day is a Sabbath for the LORD your God. Do no work on it: not you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner living among you in your towns, so that your male and female servants may rest as you do. ¹⁵Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God led you out from there by a strong hand and an outstretched arm. For this reason the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day. ¹⁶Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you. Then your days will be long, and it will go well with you in the land the LORD your God is going to give you.

¹⁷You shall not murder. ¹⁸You shall not commit adultery. ¹⁹You shall not steal. ²⁰You shall not give baseless evidence against your neighbor.

²¹You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not crave your neighbor’s house, his field, his male or female servant, his ox or his donkey, or anything else your neighbor has.’

Out of the fire

²²The LORD spoke these words to your whole assembly at the mountain, in a great voice out of the fire, the cloud and the thick darkness, and he said no more. He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. ²³When you heard the voice coming out of the darkness and the mountain was burning with fire, all your tribal heads and your elders came near to me, ²⁴and you said, ‘The LORD our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the fire. Today we have seen that God may speak with a person, and that person may still live. ²⁵So why should we die now? This great fire will devour us. If we go on hearing the voice of the LORD our God, we will die. ²⁶Of all mortals, who has heard the voice of the living God speak from the fire as we have, and stayed alive? ²⁷You go near and hear all that the LORD our God says, and then you tell us all that the LORD our God tells you; we will listen and do it.’ ²⁸The LORD heard what you said when you spoke to me, and the LORD said to me, ‘I have heard what this people said to you. They have spoken well in everything they said. ²⁹If only their hearts would stay like this, so that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, and it would go well with them and with their children forever! ³⁰Go and tell them, “Go back to your tents.” ³¹But you, stay here with me, and I will tell you the whole commandment, the statutes and the rulings that you are to teach them, so that they may do them in the land I am giving them to take possession of.’ ³²Take care, then, to do just as the LORD your God has commanded you, turning neither to the right nor to the left. ³³Walk in every part of the way that the LORD your God has commanded you. Then you will live, it will be well with you, and your days will be long in the land you are going to take possession of.