Deuteronomy 5

Old Testament · Brenton Septuagint with Greek parallel

Deuteronomy 5

1And Moses called all Israel, and said to them, Hear, Israel, the ordinances and judgments, all that I speak in your ears this day, and you shall learn them, and observe to do them.Καὶ ἐκάλεσε Μωυσῆς πάντα Ἰσραὴλ, καὶ εἶπε πρὸς αὐτούς, ἄκουε Ἰσραὴλ τὰ δικαιώματα καὶ τὰ κρίματα, ὅσα ἐγὼ λαλῶ ἐν τοῖς ὠσὶν ὑμῶν ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ταύτῃ, καὶ μαθήσεσθε αὐτὰ, καὶ φυλάξεσθε ποιεῖν αὐτά.

2The Lord your God made a covenant with you in Choreb.Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ὑμῶν διέθετο πρὸς ὑμᾶς διαθήκην ἐν Χωρήβ.

3The Lord did not make this covenant with your fathers, but with you: you are all here alive this day.Οὐχὶ τοῖς πατράσιν ὑμῶν διέθετο Κύριος τὴν διαθήκην ταύτην, ἀλλʼ ἢ πρὸς ὑμᾶς· ὑμεῖς ὧδε πάντες ζῶντες σήμερον.

4The Lord spoke to you face to face in the mountain out of the midst of the fire.Πρόσωπον κατὰ πρόσωπον ἐλάλησε Κύριος πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἐν τῷ ὄρει ἐκ μέσου τοῦ πυρός.

5And I stood between the Lord and you at that time to report to you the words of the Lord, (because you were afraid before the fire, and you went not up to the mountain) saying,Κᾀγὼ εἱστήκειν ἀναμέσον Κυρίου καὶ ὑμῶν ἐν τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ ἀναγγεῖλαι ὑμῖν τὰ ῥήματα Κυρίου, ὅτι ἐφοβήθητε ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ πυρὸς, καὶ οὐκ ἀνέβητε εἰς τὸ ὄρος, λέγων

6I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.ἐγώ εἰμι Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου ὁ ἐξαγαγών σε ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτοῦ, ἐξ οἴκου δουλείας.

7You shall have no other gods before my face.Οὐκ ἔσονταί σοι θεοὶ ἕτεροι πρὸ προσώπου μου.

8You shall not make to yourself an image, nor likeness of any thing, whatever things are in the heaven above, and whatever are in the earth beneath, and whatever are in the waters under the earth.Οὐ ποιήσεις σεαυτῷ εἴδωλον, οὐδὲ παντὸς ὁμοίωμα, ὅσα ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ ἄνω, καὶ ὅσα ἐν τῇ γῇ κάτω, καὶ ὅσα ἐν τοῖς ὕδασιν ὑποκάτω τῆς γῆς.

9You shall not bow down to them, nor shall you serve them; for I am the Lord your God, a jealous God, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation to them that hate me,Οὐ πρόσκυνήσεις αὐτοῖς, οὐδὲ μὴ λατρεύσῃς αὐτοῖς· ὅτι ἐγώ εἰμι Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου, Θεὸς ζηλωτὴς, ἀποδιδοὺς ἁμαρτίας πατέρων ἐπὶ τέκνα ἐπὶ τρίτην καὶ τετάρτην γενεὰν τοῖς μισοῦσί με,

10and doing mercifully to * thousands of them that love me, and that keep my commandments.καὶ ποιῶν ἔλεος εἰς χιλιάδας τοῖς ἀγαπῶσί με, καὶ τοῖς φυλάσσουσι τὰ προστάγματά μου.

11You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord your God will certainly not acquit him that takes his name in vain.Οὐ λήψῃ τὸ ὄνομα Κυρίου τοῦ Θεοῦ σου ἐπὶ ματαίῳ· οὐ γὰρ μὴ καθαρίσῃ Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου τὸν λαμβάνοντα τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ ματαίῳ.

12Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord your God commanded you.Φύλαξαι τὴν ἡμέραν τῶν σαββάτων ἁγιάζειν αὐτὴν, ὃν τρόπον ἐνετείλατό σοι Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου.

13Six days you shall work, and you shall do all your works;Ἓξ ἡμέρας ἐργᾷ καὶ ποιήσεις πάντα τὰ ἔργα σου·

14but on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord your God: you shall do in it no work, you, and your son, and your daughter, your man-servant, and your maidservant, your ox, and your ass, and all your cattle, and the stranger that sojourns in the midst of you; that your man-servant may rest, and your maid, and your ox, as well as you.τῇ δὲ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ ἑβδόμῃ σάββατα Κυρίῳ τῷ Θεῷ σου· οὐ ποιήσεις ἐν αὐτῇ πᾶν ἔργον σὺ καὶ ὁ υἱός σου καὶ ἡ θυγάτηρ σου, ὁ παῖς σου καὶ ἡ παιδίσκη σου, ὁ βοῦς σου καὶ τὸ ὑποζύγιόνσου, καὶ πᾶν κτῆνός σου, καὶ προσήλυτος ὁ παροικῶν ἐν σοὶ· ἵνα ἀναπαύσηται ὁ παῖς σου, καὶ ἡ παιδίσκη σου, καὶ τὸ ὑποζύγίον σου, ὥσπερ καὶ σύ.

15And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out thence with a mighty hand, and a high arm: therefore the Lord appointed you to keep the sabbath day and to sanctify it.Καὶ μνησθήσῃ ὅτι οἰκέτης ἦσθα ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτῳ, καὶ ἐξήγαγέ σε Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου ἐκεῖθεν ἐν χειρὶ κραταιᾷ, καὶ ἐν βραχίονι ὑψηλῷ· διὰ τοῦτο συνέταξέ σοι Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου ὥστε φυλάσσεσθαι τὴν ἡμέραν τῶν σαββάτων καὶ ἁγιάζειν αὐτήν.

16✡ Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you; that it may be well with you, and that you may live long upon the land, which the Lord your God gives you.Τίμα τὸν πατέρα σου καὶ τὴν μητέρα σου, ὃν τρόπον ἐνετείλατό σοι Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου, ἵνα εὖ σοι γένηται, καὶ ἵνα μακροχρόνιος γένῃ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, ἧς Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου δίδωσί σοι.

17You shall not commit murder.Οὐ φονεύσεις.

18You shall not commit adultery.Οὐ μοιχεύσεις.

19You shall not steal.Οὐ κλέψεις.

20You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.Οὐ ψευδομαρτυρήσεις κατὰ τοῦ πλησίον σου μαρτυρίαν ψευδῆ.

21You shall not covet your neighbor's wife; you shall not covet your neighbor's house, nor his field, nor his man-servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any beast of his, nor any thing that is your neighbor's.Οὐκ ἐπιθυμήσεις τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ πλησίον σου· οὐκ ἐπιθυμήσεις τὴν οἰκίαν τοῦ πλησίον σου, οὔτε τὸν ἀγρὸν αὐτοῦ, οὔτε τὸν παῖδα αὐτοῦ, οὔτε τὴν παιδίσκην αὐτοῦ, οὔτε τοῦ βοὸς αὐτοῦ, οὔτε τοῦ ὑποζυγίου αὐτοῦ, οὔτε παντὸς κτήνους αὐτοῦ, οὔτε πάντα ὅσα τῷ πλησίον σου ἐστί.

22These words the Lord spoke to all the assembly of you in the mountain out of the midst of the fire—there was darkness, blackness, storm, a loud voice—and he added no more, and he wrote them on two tables of stone, and he gave them to me.Ταῦτα τὰ ῥήματα ἐλάλησε Κύριος πρὸς πᾶσαν συναγωγὴν ὑμῶν ἐν τῷ ὄρει ἐκ μέσου τοῦ πυρός· σκότος, γνόφος, θύελλα, φωνὴ μεγάλη· καὶ οὐ προσέθηκε· καὶ ἔγραψεν αὐτὰ ἐπὶ δύο πλάκας λιθίνας, καὶ ἔδωκέ μοι.

23And it came to pass when you heard the voice out of the midst of the fire, for the mountain burned with fire, that you came to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders:Καὶ ἐγένετο ὡς ἠκούσατε τὴν φωνὴν ἐκ μέσου τοῦ πυρός, καὶ τὸ ὄρος ἐκαίετο πυρί, καὶ προσήλθετε πρὸς μὲ πάντες οἱ ἡγούμενοι τῶν φυλῶν ὑμῶν, καὶ ἡ γερουσία ὑμῶν,

24and you said, Behold, the Lord our God has shown us his glory, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: † this day we have seen that God shall speak to man, and he shall live.καὶ ἐλέγετε, ἰδοὺ ἔδειξεν ἡμῖν Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὴν φωνὴν αὐτοῦ ἠκούσαμεν ἐκ μέσου τοῦ πυρός· ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ταύτῃ εἴδομεν ὅτι λαλήσει ὁ Θεὸς πρὸς ἄνθρωπον, καὶ ζήσεται.

25And now let us not die, for this great fire will consume us, if we shall hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, and we shall die.Καὶ νῦν μὴ ἀποθάνωμεν, ὅτι ἐξαναλώσει ἡμᾶς τὸ πῦρ τὸ μέγα τοῦτο, ἐὰν προσθώμεθα ἡμεῖς ἀκοῦσαι τὴν φωνὴν Κυρίου τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡμῶν ἔτι, καὶ ἀποθανούμεθα.

26For what flesh is there which has heard the voice of the living God, speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have heard, and shall live?Τίς γὰρ σὰρξ ἥτις ἤκουσε φωνὴν Θεοῦ ζῶντος, λαλοῦντος ἐκ μέσου τοῦ πυρὸς, ὡς ἡμεῖς, καὶ ζήσεται;

27Do you draw near, and hear all that the Lord our God shall say, and you shall speak to us all things whatever the Lord our God shall speak to you, and we will hear, and do.Πρόσελθε σὺ, καὶ ἄκουσον πάντα ὅσα ἂν εἴπῃ Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, καὶ σὺ λαλήσεις πρὸς ἡμᾶς πάντα ὅσα ἂν λαλήσει Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν πρὸς σὲ, καὶ ἀκουσόμεθα, καὶ ποιήσομεν.

28And the Lord heard the voice of your words as you spoke to me; and the Lord said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, even all things that they have said to you. They have well said all that they have spoken.Καὶ ἤκουσε Κύριος τὴν φωνὴν τῶν λόγων ὑμῶν λαλούντων πρὸς μέ· καὶ εἶπε Κύριος πρὸς μέ, ἤκουσα τὴν φωνὴν τῶν λόγων τοῦ λαοῦ τούτου ὅσα ἐλάλησαν πρὸς σέ· ὀρθῶς πάντα ὅσα ἐλάλησαν.

29‡ O that there were such a heart in them, that they should fear me and keep my commands always, that it might be well with them and with their sons for ever.Τίς δώσει εἶναι οὕτω τὴν καρδίαν αὐτῶν ἐν αὐτοῖς, ὥστε φοβεῖσθαί με καὶ φυλάσσεσθαι τὰς ἐντολάς μου πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας, ἵνα εὖ ἠ· αὐτοῖς, καὶ τοῖς υἱοῖς αὐτῶν διʼ αἰῶνος;

30Go, say to them, Return you to your houses;Βάδισον, εἶπον αὐτοῖς, ἀποστράφητε ὑμεῖς εἰς τοὺς οἴκους ὑμῶν·

31but stand you here with me, and I will tell you all the commands, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which you shall teach them, and let them do so in the land which I give them for an inheritance.σὺ δὲ αὐτοῦ στῆθι μετʼ ἐμοῦ, καὶ λαλήσω πρὸς σὲ τὰς ἐντολὰς καὶ τὰ δικαιώματα καὶ τὰ κρίματα ὅσα διδάξεις αὐτοὺς, καὶ ποιείτωσαν οὕτως ἐν τῇ γῇ ἣν ἐγὼ δίδωμι αὐτοῖς ἐν κλήρῳ.

32And you shall take heed to do as the Lord your God commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left,Καὶ φυλάξεσθε ποιεῖν ὃν τρόπον ἐνετειλατό σοι Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου· οὐκ ἐκκλινεῖτε εἰς δεξιὰ οὐδὲ εἰς ἀριστερά,

33according to all the way which the Lord your God commanded you to walk in it, that he may give you rest; and that it may be well with you, and you may prolong your days on the land which you shall inherit.κατὰ πᾶσαν τὴν ὁδὸν, ἣν ἐνετείλατό σοι Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου πορεύεσθαι ἐν αὐτῇ, ὅπως καταπαύσῃ σε, καὶ εὖ σοι ἠ·, καὶ μακροημερεύσητε ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἣν κληρονομήσετε.

Translator's Notes

These notes come from the printed edition of Sir Lancelot Brenton's classic English translation of the Septuagint (LXX), and record where the Greek differs from the English rendering or admits more than one reading.

• v. 10*Gr. to them that love, etc. to the number of thousands.
• v. 16✡Matt 15:4; Eph 6:1
• v. 24†Or, by this day.
• v. 29‡Gr. Who will give that there should be so an heart, etc.