Luther Bible 1545 (English)
the LORD your God, which he hath made with you, and that ye make not images of divers likenesses, as the LORD thy God hath commanded.
For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, and a fierce God.
When ye therefore beget children, and children’s children, and dwell in the land, and corrupt yourselves, and make you images of divers likenesses, then ye do evil in the sight of the LORD your God, and provoke him to anger,
I call heaven and the end to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon perish from off the land whither ye go up Jordan to possess it: ye shall not long abide therein, but shall be destroyed.
And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left a small multitude among the heathen, whither the LORD shall drive you.
There shalt thou serve gods which are the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
But if thou shalt seek the LORD thy God there, thou shalt find him where thou shalt seek him with all thine heart and with all thy soul.
When thou shalt be troubled, and all these things shall befall thee in the last days, then shalt thou turn unto the LORD thy God, and obey his voice.
For the LORD thy God is a merciful God: he will not leave thee, nor destroy thee, nor forget the covenant which he sware unto thy fathers.
Then inquire of the former times that were before thee, from the day that God created man upon the earth, from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing hath ever been done, or the like thereof ever heard,
That a people have heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as thou hast heard, and yet live?
Or whether God tempted to go in and take a people from the midst of a people by temptation, by signs, by wonders, by strife, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by very terrible deeds, as all these things the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Thou hast seen, that thou mayest know that the LORD alone is GOD, and none more.
From heaven he hath made thee to hear his voice, to chasten thee; and upon earth he hath shewed thee his great fire, and his words thou hast heard out of the fire, 37. Because he loved thy fathers, and their seed after them, and brought thee out of Egypt with his great power,
To drive out from before thee great nations, and stronger than thou, and to bring thee in, to give thee the land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
Know therefore this day, and take it to thine heart, that the LORD is one God in heaven above, and in earth beneath, and none more;
To keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee this day: and it shall be well with thee, and with thy children after thee, that thy days may be long in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for ever.
And Moses separated three cities on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, 42. And he that killeth his neighbour unawares, and hath not been his enemy before, shall flee thither, and live in the cities:
Bezer in the wilderness of the plain among the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead among the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan among the Manassites.
This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
This is the testimony, and the commandment, and the statutes, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt,
On the other side Jordan, in the valley over against the house of Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who sat in Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote when they came out of Egypt,
And they took his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, of the two kings of the Amorites, which were on the other side Jordan toward the sunrising,
From Aroer, which is on the bank of the river by Arnon, unto mount Sion, which is Hermon, 49. And all the plain beyond Jordan, toward the rising of the sun, unto the sea in the plain, under mount Pisgah.
(Deuteronomy)
Chapter 5
Repetition of the ten commandments of God.
And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them: Hear, O Israel, the commandments and the statutes which I speak in your ears this day, and learn them, and keep them, and do them.
The LORD our God hath made a covenant with us in Horeb.
And hath not made this covenant with our fathers, but with us, who are here this day, and are all alive.
He spake unto us face to face out of the fire that was in the mount.
I stood between the LORD and you at that time, and told you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid of the fire, and went not up into the mountain. And he said: 6. I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, neither in heaven above, nor in the earth beneath, nor in the water under the earth.
Thou shalt not worship them, nor serve them. For I am the LORD thy God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children of the third and fourth generation, which hate me,
And show mercy in many thousands who love me and keep my commandments.
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not suffer him
to go unpunished that taketh his name in vain.
The sabbath day shalt thou keep holy, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work.
But on the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not do any work, neither thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor all thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest, as thou hast rested.
For thou shalt remember that thou also wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out from thence with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm.
Therefore the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Thou shalt honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God commanded thee, that thou mayest live long, and that it may go well with thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Thou shalt not kill.
thou shalt not commit adultery
thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Lust not after thy neighbour’s wife. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, his manservant, his maidservant, his ox, his ass, nor any thing that is his.
These are the words which the LORD spake unto all your congregation in the mount out of the fire, and out of the cloud, and out of the darkness, with a loud voice, and did nothing: and he wrote them upon two tables of stone, and gave them unto me.
And when ye heard the voice out of the darkness, and the mountain burning with fire, ye came unto me, all the chief of your tribes, and your elders,
And said, Behold, the LORD our God hath made us to see his glory and his majesty; and we have heard his voice out of the fire: this day have we seen that God speaketh unto men, and they live.
And now why should we die, that this great fire should consume us? If we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, we must die.
For what is all flesh, that it may hear the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we do, and live?
Come near, and hear all that the LORD our God saith, and tell us. Whatsoever the LORD our God shall speak unto thee, that will we hear and do.
And when the LORD heard your words which ye spake unto me, he said unto me, I have heard the words of this people, which they spake unto thee: all that they have spoken is good.
Oh that they had such a heart to fear me, and to keep all my commandments all the days of their life, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
Go and tell them: Go home to your tents.
And thou shalt stand here before me, and I will speak unto thee all the statutes, and all the commandments, and all the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I shall give them to possess.
Keep therefore that ye do according to all that the LORD your God hath commanded you, and turn not aside to the right hand, nor to the left,
But walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may live long in the land which ye shall inherit.
(Deuteronomy)
Chapter 6
Explanation of the first commandment, of the love of God.
Now these are the statutes, and the commandments, and the judgments, which the LORD your God hath commanded, that ye should learn them, and