{ "schemaVersion": 1, "kind": "study-section", "id": "ten-commandments", "part": { "id": "second-address", "title": "Second address: life in the covenant", "summary": "The Ten Commandments, the great commandment, and the statutes for life in the land, ending with blessings and curses (4:44–28:68)." }, "title": "The Ten Commandments", "range": [ 5004044, 5005033 ], "summary": "Moses sets out the law and summons Israel to hear the covenant the LORD made at Horeb, not only with their fathers but with all of them alive that day. He repeats the Ten Commandments, giving the Sabbath as a reminder that they were slaves in Egypt, and recalls how the people, afraid of the fire, asked him to hear God’s words for them.", "recalls": [ { "event": "heshbon", "range": [ 5004046, 5004046 ], "note": "Sihon’s land, where Moses speaks.", "reference": "Deuteronomy 4:46", "translation": "bsb", "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%204%3A46&version=BSB", "eventTitle": "Across the Arnon", "eventUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/heshbon/" }, { "event": "bashan", "range": [ 5004047, 5004047 ], "note": "Og’s land.", "reference": "Deuteronomy 4:47", "translation": "bsb", "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%204%3A47&version=BSB", "eventTitle": "North into Bashan", "eventUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/bashan/" }, { "event": "sinai", "range": [ 5005001, 5005033 ], "note": "The covenant at Horeb and the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20).", "reference": "Deuteronomy 5:1–33", "translation": "bsb", "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%205%3A1%E2%80%9333&version=BSB", "eventTitle": "A covenant at the mountain", "eventUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/sinai/" } ], "ahead": [ { "range": [ 40019017, 40019019 ], "note": "Jesus lists commandments to the rich young man.", "event": "jesus-teaches-in-perea", "reference": "Matthew 19:17–19", "translation": "bsb", "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2019%3A17%E2%80%9319&version=BSB", "eventTitle": "Teaching on the way to Jerusalem", "eventUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/jesus-teaches-in-perea/" }, { "range": [ 45013008, 45013010 ], "note": "Paul sums up the commandments in love of neighbor.", "reference": "Romans 13:8–10", "translation": "bsb", "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%2013%3A8%E2%80%9310&version=BSB" }, { "range": [ 49006002, 49006003 ], "note": "Honor your father and mother: the first commandment with a promise.", "reference": "Ephesians 6:2–3", "translation": "bsb", "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians%206%3A2%E2%80%933&version=BSB" } ], "questions": [ "Moses says this covenant was made with those alive that day, not only with their fathers. What does that mean for later generations?" ], "studyId": "deuteronomy", "studyTitle": "Deuteronomy", "intro": "Deuteronomy records Moses’ last speeches to the new generation of Israel on the plains of Moab, in the fortieth year after the Exodus (1:3). It looks back over the journey from Egypt and Horeb and forward to life in the land, calling Israel to love the LORD and remember what he has done. Each section below lists what Moses recalls, with links to those events on the timeline, and where the rest of Scripture takes up the passage.", "setting": { "era": "exodus-wilderness", "place": "region-moab", "date": { "kind": "approximate", "label": "c. 1406 BC · Year 40, month 11 (Deuteronomy 1:3)", "earliest": -1406, "latest": -1406, "note": "Dated from 1 Kings 6:1 (the Exodus c. 1446 BC). Many scholars instead date the Exodus to about 1260 BC, placing these speeches about 1220 BC." } }, "places": [ { "id": "region-moab", "name": "Plains of Moab", "coordinate": [ 35.64, 31.85 ], "kind": "Region", "confidence": "Approximate region", "confidenceSource": "editorial", "sources": [ { "label": "Numbers 33:48–49 · extent of the camp", "url": "https://ebible.org/eng-web/NUM33.htm" } ], "extent": [ [ 35.56, 31.77 ], [ 35.7, 31.91 ] ] } ], "provenance": { "review": "draft", "sources": [ { "name": "editorial" } ] }, "passages": [ { "reference": "Deuteronomy 4:44–5:33", "range": [ 5004044, 5005033 ], "translation": "bsb", "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%204%3A44%E2%80%935%3A33&version=BSB", "availability": "bundled", "verses": [ { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 4, "verse": 44, "text": "This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 4, "verse": 45, "text": "These are the testimonies, statutes, and ordinances that Moses proclaimed to them after they had come out of Egypt," }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 4, "verse": 46, "text": "while they were in the valley across the Jordan facing Beth-peor in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon and was defeated by Moses and the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 4, "verse": 47, "text": "They took possession of the land belonging to Sihon and to Og king of Bashan—the two Amorite kings across the Jordan to the east—" }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 4, "verse": 48, "text": "extending from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Siyon (that is, Hermon)," }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 4, "verse": 49, "text": "including all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the slopes of Pisgah." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "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." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "The LORD spoke with you face to face out of the fire on the mountain." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "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:" }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "You shall have no other gods before Me." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "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." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "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," }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "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." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "Six days you shall labor and do all your work," }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "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." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "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." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "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." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "You shall not murder." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "You shall not commit adultery." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "You shall not steal." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "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.”" }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "text": "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." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "text": "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," }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "text": "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." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "text": "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." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "text": "For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and survived?" }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 27, "text": "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.”" }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 28, "text": "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." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 29, "text": "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." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 30, "text": "Go and tell them: ‘Return to your tents.’" }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 31, "text": "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.”" }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 32, "text": "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." }, { "book": "Deuteronomy", "chapter": 5, "verse": 33, "text": "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." } ] } ], "interactiveUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?study=deuteronomy§ion=ten-commandments", "attribution": [ "Study guide: original editorial writing for Scripture Atlas.", "Place coordinates: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.", "Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm" ], "translation": "bsb", "url": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/studies/deuteronomy/ten-commandments/", "markdownUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/studies/deuteronomy/ten-commandments/index.md", "jsonUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/studies/deuteronomy/ten-commandments/index.json", "cautions": "Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.", "revision": "57fc39dfdd8272fe" }