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EXO 20:1–20:17 ©

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The ten rules

Exo 20:1–17

Deu 5:1–22

20Then God gave these instructions to the Israelis: 2I’m your god Yahweh, who rescued you[fn] from where you were enslaved in Egypt.


20:2 Although modern English doesn’t easily distinguish it, this discourse is addressed to singular ‘you’, i.e., to the Israelis as one group. While some of our modern, individualistic cultures might naturally interpret these rules as applying to individuals, they were given to Yisrael/Israel to implement at a national level.


5Then Mosheh (Moses) summoned all Yisrael and told them, “Yisrael, listen to the instructions and the regulations that I will speak in your ears today, and then you must learn them and be careful to follow them. 2Our god Yahweh made an agreement with us at Horev (Mt. Sinai). 3He didn’t make that agreement with our ancestors, but with us ourselves—those of us here today, i.e., with living people. 4Yahweh spoke to you from the middle of the fire—face to face with you all on that mountain. 5Well, it was me who stood between all of you and Yahweh at that time, to reveal Yahweh’s message to you, because you were afraid to approach the fire, and you all didn’t go up the mountain. Yahweh said:

6‘I am your god Yahweh who brought you all out of Egypt—from the slave-house there.

  • 7Don’t have any other god, other than me.
  • 8Don’t carve any figure for yourself that looks like anything in the sky or on the ground, or in the water below the ground.[ref] 9Don’t bow down to them or serve them, because I, your god Yahweh, am a jealous god. I’ll punish the descendants of those who hate me, even for three or four generations,[ref] 10but showing loyal commitment to thousands of generations of those who love me and obey my instructions.
  • 11Don’t use the name of your god Yahweh idly, because I won’t fail to punish people who do that.
  • 12Observe the Rest Day on Saturday to sanctify it, as your god Yahweh commanded you.[ref] 13There’s six days for labouring and doing all your work, 14but the seventh day is a rest day dedicated to your god Yahweh. Don’t do any work on that day: not you or your children or your slaves, or using any of your cattle, nor any foreigner living with you—your slaves can rest like you. 15Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and that your god Yahweh took action and used my power to take you out of there. Therefore your god Yahweh commands you to keep the Rest Day.
  • 16Honour your father and mother as your god Yahweh has commanded you, so that you’ll have a long life and so that everything will go well in the country that your god Yahweh is giving you.[ref]
  • 17Don’t murder anyone.
  • 18Don’t commit adultery.
  • 19Don’t steal anything.
  • 20Don’t tell lies in court about anyone.
  • 21Don’t covet your neighbour’s spouse, or their house or land, or their slaves or livestock, or anything else that they own.’[ref]

22Yahweh spoke those words in a booming voice from the middle of the fire, the cloud, and the gloom, to all your assembly on the mountain. That was all he said, and he wrote those instructions on two stone tablets and gave them to me.[ref]


Collected OET-RV cross-references

Exo 34:17:

17Don’t make cast metal gods for yourselves.[ref]


34:17: Exo 20:4; Lev 19:4; Deu 5:8; 27:15.

Lev 19:4:

4[ref]


19:4: a Lev 26:1; b Exo 20:23; 34:17; Deu 27:15.

26:1:

26[ref]


26:1: a Lev 19:4; b Exo 20:4; Deu 5:8; 16:21-22; 27:1.

Deu 4:15-18:

15 16[ref] 17[ref] 18


4:16: Exo 20:4; Lev 26:1; Deu 5:8; 27:15.

4:17-18a: Rom 1:23.

27:15:

15[ref]


27:15: Exo 20:4; 34:17; Lev 19:4; 26:1; Deu 4:15-18; 5:8.

Exo 34:6-7:

6Yahweh passed over above his face and proclaimed, “I am Yahweh, a compassionate and gracious God, slow to get angry but exuding faithfulness and trustworthiness.[ref] 7I display faithfulness to thousands of generationsforgiving disobedience, transgression, and sin. But I certainly won’t let the guilty get away with itvisiting the iniquity of the parents onto the children and onto the grandchildren—to the third and the fourth generations.”


34:6-7: Exo 20:5-6; Num 14:18; Deu 5:9-10; 7:9-10.

Num 14:18:

18

Deu 7:9-10:

9[ref] 10


7:9-10: Exo 20:5-6; 34:6-7; Num 14:18; Deu 5:9-10.

Lev 19:12:

12[ref]


19:12: Exo 20:7; Deu 5:11; Mat 5:33.

Exo 16:23-30:

23and he told them, “This is what Yahweh said: Tomorrow is a rest day to be set aside for Yahweh. So bake or cook your food, and keep the left-overs overnight to use in the morning.”[ref] 24So they did what Mosheh had told them and kept the left-overs until the morning, and it didn’t stink or have any bugs in it. 25On that Saturday morning, Mosheh told them, “Go ahead and eat the previously cooked food because today is set aside for Yahweh and so you all won’t find any more on the ground26you’ll gather it for six days each week, but on the Saturday, there won’t be any.”

27However, some people did go out to collect it, but they couldn’t find any, 28and Yahweh said to Mosheh, “For how long will you all keep refusing to obey my commands and my laws? 29Listen, Yahweh has given you the Rest Day, so on the Friday he gives you food for two days. On the Saturday, everyone should stay where they are—there’s no need for anyone to go outside searching.” 30So the people didn’t work on the Saturday.


16:23: Exo 20:8-11.

31:12-14:

12Then Yahweh told Mosheh: 13Tell the Israelis that you all must certainly observe the weekly rest day because the rest day is a sign between me and you all throughout your generations, so that you will know that I am Yahweh, who wants to distinguish you from other nations. 14So you all must observe the rest day because it’s sacred for you. Anyone who treats it as an ordinary day must be put to death. Anyone who works on it must be expelled from the community.

Exo 23:12:

12Six days You should work for six days, then on the seventh day you must rest so that your cow and your donkey can rest, and the children of your slaves and the foreigner staying in your land can be refreshed.[ref]


23:12: Exo 20:9-11; 31:15; 34:21; 35:2; Lev 23:3; Deu 5:13-14.

31:15:

15There’s six days for working, and then the seventh is a rest day—dedicated to me. Anyone who works on it must certainly be put to death.[ref]


31:15: Exo 20:8-11; 23:12; 34:21; 35:2; Lev 23:3; Deu 5:12-14.

34:21:

21Each week, you should only work for six days, then you must rest on the seventh dayeven during ploughing and harvest times.[ref]


34:21: Exo 20:9-10; 23:12; 31:15; 35:2; Lev 23:3; Deu 5:13-14.

35:2:

2Every week, you can work for six days, but the seventh day will be a sacred rest day, dedicated to Yahweh. Anyone who works on that day must be put to death.[ref]


35:2: Exo 20:8-11; 23:12; 31:15; 34:21; Lev 23:3; Deu 5:12-14.

Lev 23:3:

3[ref]


23:3: Exo 20:8-10; 23:12; 31:15; 34:21; 35:2; Deu 5:12-14.

Gen 2:1-3:

2So the heavens and the earth were completed, along with everything in them. 2By the seventh day God had finished his work, so he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he’d done.[ref] 3Then God blessed the seventh day and declared it to be different from the other days, because on that first Saturday, he rested from all his work of creating.


2:2-3: Exo 20:11.

Exo 31:17:

17between me and the Israelis. It’s a never-ending sign that I made the heavens and the earth in six days, and then rested on the seventh day and was refreshed.[ref]


31:17: Exo 20:11.

Deu 27:16:

16

Mat 15:4:

4[ref]God told us to honour our father and our mother, and also that anyone who speaks evil about their father or mother deserves the death penalty.


15:4: a Exo 20:12; Deu 5:16; b Exo 21:17; Lev 20:9.

19:19:

19[ref]honour your parents, and love your neighbour like yourself.


19:19: a Exo 20:12; Deu 5:16; b Lev 19:18.

Mrk 7:10:

10[ref]Mosheh teaches us,

‘Honour your parents,’

and

‘Anyone dishonestly slandering their parents deserves the death penalty.’


7:10: a Exo 20:12; Deu 5:16; b Exo 21:17; Lev 20:9.

10:19:

19[ref]You know God’s commands: don’t murder, don’t commit adultery, don’t steal, don’t lie about others, don’t defraud others, and honour your parents.


10:19: a Exo 20:13; Deu 5:17; b Exo 20:14; Deu 5:18; c Exo 20:15; Deu 5:19; d Exo 20:16; Deu 5:20; e Exo 20:12; Deu 5:16.

Luk 18:20:

20[ref]You know God’s commands: Don’t commit adultery, don’t murder, don’t steal, don’t lie in court, and honour your parents.


18:20: a Exo 20:14; Deu 5:18; b Exo 20:13; Deu 5:17; c Exo 20:15; Deu 5:19; d Exo 20:16; Deu 5:20; e Exo 20:12; Deu 5:16.

Eph 6:2:

2[ref]Honour your father and mother (that’s the first command that’s followed by a promise)


6:2-3: Exo 20:12; Deu 5:16.

Eph 6:3:

3so that things will go well for you and you’ll have a long life on the earth.

Gen 9:6:

6Yes, if anyone sheds human blood, the others must shed the murderer’s blood, because God made human beings in his image.[ref]


9:6: Exo 20:13; Gen 1:26.

Lev 24:17:

17[ref]


24:17: Exo 21:12.

Mat 5:21:

21You all heard that your ancestors were told not to murder because any murderer will be sentenced.[ref]


5:21: Exo 20:13; Deu 5:17.

19:18:

18[ref]Which ones?” he asked.

Don’t murder,Yeshua answered, “don’t mess with another person’s spouse, don’t steal, don’t lie in court,


19:18: a Exo 20:13; Deu 5:17; b Exo 20:14; Deu 5:18; c Exo 20:15; Deu 5:19; d Exo 20:16; Deu 5:20.

Mrk 10:19:

19[ref]You know God’s commands: don’t murder, don’t commit adultery, don’t steal, don’t lie about others, don’t defraud others, and honour your parents.


10:19: a Exo 20:13; Deu 5:17; b Exo 20:14; Deu 5:18; c Exo 20:15; Deu 5:19; d Exo 20:16; Deu 5:20; e Exo 20:12; Deu 5:16.

Rom 13:9:

9which is:[ref] Don’t commit adultery. Don’t murder. Don’t steal. Don’t covet what others have. All of those plus any other commands can be summarised as: Love your neighbour like you love yourself.


13:9: a Exo 20:14; Deu 5:18; b Exo 20:13; Deu 5:17; c Exo 20:15; Deu 5:19; d Exo 20:17; Deu 5:21; e Lev 19:18.

Jam 2:11:

11The same God who said, ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ also said, ‘Don’t murder,’[ref] so if you’re not committing adultery but you murder someone, then you’ve broken the law.


2:11: a Exo 20:14; Deu 5:18; b Exo 20:13; Deu 5:17.

Lev 20:10:

10[ref]


20:10: Exo 20:14; Lev 18:20; Deu 5:18.

Mat 5:27:

27You all know that the scriptures say not to commit adultery,[ref]


5:27: Exo 20:14; Deu 5:18.

Jam 2:11:

11The same God who said, ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ also said, ‘Don’t murder,’[ref] so if you’re not committing adultery but you murder someone, then you’ve broken the law.


2:11: a Exo 20:14; Deu 5:18; b Exo 20:13; Deu 5:17.

Lev 19:11:

11[ref]


19:11: a Exo 20:15; Deu 5:19; b Exo 20:16; Deu 5:20.

Mat 19:18:

18[ref]Which ones?” he asked.

Don’t murder,Yeshua answered, “don’t mess with another person’s spouse, don’t steal, don’t lie in court,


19:18: a Exo 20:13; Deu 5:17; b Exo 20:14; Deu 5:18; c Exo 20:15; Deu 5:19; d Exo 20:16; Deu 5:20.

Rom 13:9:

9which is:[ref] Don’t commit adultery. Don’t murder. Don’t steal. Don’t covet what others have. All of those plus any other commands can be summarised as: Love your neighbour like you love yourself.


13:9: a Exo 20:14; Deu 5:18; b Exo 20:13; Deu 5:17; c Exo 20:15; Deu 5:19; d Exo 20:17; Deu 5:21; e Lev 19:18.

Exo 23:1:

23You mustn’t present a false statement. Don’t conspire with a wicked person to give false evidence.[ref]


23:1: Exo 20:16; Lev 19:11-12; Deu 5:20.

Luk 18:20:

20[ref]You know God’s commands: Don’t commit adultery, don’t murder, don’t steal, don’t lie in court, and honour your parents.


18:20: a Exo 20:14; Deu 5:18; b Exo 20:13; Deu 5:17; c Exo 20:15; Deu 5:19; d Exo 20:16; Deu 5:20; e Exo 20:12; Deu 5:16.

Rom 7:7:

7[ref]So what will we say then? Say that the law is sin? Not on your life! I wouldn’t have known what sin was if it wasn’t for the Law. For example, I wouldn’t have known what coveting was if the Law hadn’t told me not to covet.


7:7: Exo 20:17; Deu 5:21.

13:9:

9which is:[ref] Don’t commit adultery. Don’t murder. Don’t steal. Don’t covet what others have. All of those plus any other commands can be summarised as: Love your neighbour like you love yourself.


13:9: a Exo 20:14; Deu 5:18; b Exo 20:13; Deu 5:17; c Exo 20:15; Deu 5:19; d Exo 20:17; Deu 5:21; e Lev 19:18.

Lev 26:1:

26[ref]


26:1: a Lev 19:4; b Exo 20:4; Deu 5:8; 16:21-22; 27:1.

27:15:

15

Heb 12:18-19:

18You all haven’t come to what can be touched and to a blazing fire and to darkness and to gloom and to a storm (like Israelis encountered at Mt. Sinai)[ref] 19and to a trumpet blast and then God speaking a message. But when they heard him speaking, they pleaded for him not to say anything else to them,


12:18-19: Exo 19:16-22; 20:18-21; Deu 4:11-12; 5:22-27.