Chapter 5

And Moses calleth unto all Israel, and saith unto them, `Hear, Israel, the statutes and the judgments which I am speaking in your ears to-day, and ye have learned them, and have observed to do them.

Yehovah our God made with us a covenant in Horeb;

not with our fathers hath Yehovah made this covenant, but with us; we -- these -- here to-day -- all of us alive.

Face to face hath Yehovah spoken with you, in the mount, out of the midst of the fire;

I am standing between Yehovah and you, at that time, to declare to you the word of Yehovah, for ye have been afraid from the presence of the fire, and ye have not gone up into the mount; saying:

`I Yehovah am thy God, who hath brought thee out from the land of Egypt, from a house of servants.

`Thou hast no other gods in My presence.

`Thou dost not make to thee a graven image, any similitude which is in the heavens above, and which is in the earth beneath, and which is in the waters under the earth;

thou dost not bow thyself to them nor serve them, for I Yehovah thy God am a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on a third generation, and on a fourth, to those hating Me;

and doing kindness to thousands, to those loving Me, and to those keeping My commands.

`Thou dost not take up the Name of Yehovah thy God for a vain thing, for Yehovah doth not acquit him who taketh up His Name for a vain thing.

`Observe the day of the sabbath -- to sanctify it, as Yehovah thy God hath commanded thee;

six days thou dost labour, and hast done all thy work,

and the seventh day is a sabbath to Yehovah thy God; thou dost not do any work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and thine ox, and thine ass, and all thy cattle, and thy sojourner who is within thy gates; so that thy man-servant, and thy handmaid doth rest like thyself;

and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, and Yehovah thy God is bringing thee out thence by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm; therefore hath Yehovah thy God commanded thee to keep the day of the sabbath.

`Honour thy father and thy mother, as Yehovah thy God hath commanded thee, so that thy days are prolonged, and so that it is well with thee, on the ground which Yehovah thy God is giving to thee.

`Thou dost not murder.

`Thou dost not commit adultery.

`Thou dost not steal.

`Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour -- a false testimony.

`Thou dost not desire thy neighbour`s wife; nor dost thou covet thy neighbour`s house, his field, and his man-servant, and his handmaid, his ox, and his ass, and anything which is thy neighbour`s.

`These words hath Yehovah spoken unto all your assembly, in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness -- a great voice; and He hath not added, and He writeth them on two tables of stone, and giveth them unto me.

`And it cometh to pass as ye hear the voice out of the midst of the darkness, and of the mountain burning with fire, that ye come near unto me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders,

and say, Lo, Yehovah our God hath shewed us His honour, and His greatness; and His voice we have heard out of the midst of the fire; this day we have seen that God doth speak with man -- and he hath lived.

`And, now, why do we die? for consume us doth this great fire -- if we add to hear the voice of Yehovah our God any more -- then we have died.

For who of all flesh is he who hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire like us -- and doth live?

Draw near thou, and hear all that which Yehovah our God saith, and thou, thou dost speak unto us all that which Yehovah our God speaketh unto thee, and we have hearkened, and done it.

`And Yehovah heareth the voice of your words, in your speaking unto me, and Yehovah saith unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken unto thee; they have done well in all that they have spoken.

O that their heart had been thus to them, to fear Me, and to keep My commands all the days, that it may be well with them, and with their sons -- to the age!

`Go, say to them, Turn back for yourselves, to your tents;

and thou here stand thou with Me, and let Me speak unto thee all the command, and the statutes, and the judgments which thou dost teach them, and they have done in the land which I am giving to them to possess it.

`And ye have observed to do as Yehovah your God hath commanded you, ye turn not aside -- right or left;

in all the way which Yehovah your God hath commanded you ye walk, so that ye live, and it is well with you, and ye have prolonged days in the land which ye possess.