fra Biblica1Moses kaldte hele Israels folk sammen og sagde til dem: „Lyt nu omhyggeligt til de love, Gud har givet jer, så I lærer dem og adlyder dem.2Ved Horebs bjerg sluttede Herren, vores Gud, en pagt,3ikke kun med vores fædre, men med alle os, som lever i dag.4I hørte selv Herren tale til jer fra ilden på bjerget.5Ved den lejlighed var det mig, der var mellemmand mellem Herren og jer, så jeg kunne videredegive hans ord til jer. I var jo bange for ilden, og det var ikke jer, der gik op på bjerget. Han sagde:6‚Jeg er Herren, jeres Gud, som reddede jer fra slaveriet i Egypten.7Du må ikke tilbede andre end mig.8Du må ikke lave afgudsbilleder af nogen art ud fra det, du ser i himmelrummet, på landjorden eller i havet.9Du må ikke bøje dig for et afgudsbillede eller tilbede det, for jeg er Herren, din Gud, og jeg vil ikke dele din hengivenhed med nogen anden gud. Jeg undlader ikke at straffe dem, der hader mig, så det kan mærkes indtil tredje eller fjerde slægtled.10Men jeg er også den, der er trofast gennem tusind generationer. Jeg gør godt mod dem, der elsker mig og holder mine befalinger.11Du må ikke misbruge Herren, din Guds, navn. Jeg straffer den, der misbruger mit navn.12Du skal holde hviledagen hellig, sådan som Herren, din Gud, har befalet.13Du har seks dage om ugen til at udføre dit arbejde og dine daglige gøremål,14men den syvende dag er en hviledag, som er indviet til Herren, din Gud. Den dag må du ikke udføre nogen form for arbejde. Det gælder også dine sønner, dine døtre, dine slaver, dine okser, æsler og andre husdyr, og eventuelle fremmede, som bor hos dig. På den dag skal dine slaver have mulighed for at hvile ud ligesom dig.15Husk på, at dine forfædre var slaver i Egypten, indtil jeg greb ind og førte dem ud med magt og vælde. Derfor befaler jeg, at du holder hviledagen hellig.16Du skal ære din far og din mor, sådan som Herren, din Gud, har befalet dig, så du kan få et langt og godt liv i det land, jeg vil give dig.17Du må ikke begå drab.18Du må ikke bryde ægteskabet.19Du må ikke stjæle.20Du må ikke anklage nogen på falsk grundlag.21Du må ikke begære andre menneskers ægtefælle, hus, ejendom, slaver, husdyr eller andet, der tilhører dem.’22Herren gav de her befalinger til hele folket, da han talte til dem fra ilden på bjerget, som var omgivet af mørke og sorte skyer. Det var de eneste bud, han dengang gav folket, og han skrev dem på to stentavler og gav tavlerne til mig.23Men da de hørte hans stemme og så ilden på bjergets top, kom deres ledere24og bønfaldt mig: ‚I dag har Herren, vores Gud, vist os sin herlighed og storhed, så vi endog med egne ører har hørt hans stemme fra ilden, og vi har erfaret, at det er muligt at høre Guds røst, uden at man dør af det.25Men vi er bange for, at den vældige ild vil fortære os, hvis Herren bliver ved med at tale til os på den måde.26Trods alt er det aldrig tidligere sket, at nogen overlevede at komme så tæt på den levende Gud.27Derfor skal du, Moses, fremover tale med Gud alene og bagefter fortælle os, hvad han sagde, så vi kan handle derefter.’28Herren hørte jeres bøn og sagde til mig: ‚Jeg har hørt, hvad folket har sagt, og det er rigtigt af dem at være forsigtige.29Gid de må bevare denne ærefrygt for mig, så de altid af hjertet ønsker at adlyde mine befalinger. Da vil det gå dem og deres efterkommere godt i al fremtid.30Gå nu ned og sig til dem, at de skal vende hjem til deres telte.31Når du kommer tilbage til mig, vil jeg give dig de love, du skal lære dem, for at de kan overholde dem i det land, jeg giver dem.’ ”32Derpå sagde Moses til folket, som nu opholdt sig på Moabs sletter: „I skal følge Herren, jeres Guds, befalinger til punkt og prikke og ikke på nogen måde gå på kompromis med dem.33Gør I det, vil I få et langt og godt liv i det land, I snart skal ind og tage i besiddelse.
1And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.2The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. (2.Mos 19,5; 5.Mos 4,23)3Not with our fathers did the Lord make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today. (Heb 8,9)4The Lord spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, (2.Mos 33,11; 4.Mos 14,14; 5.Mos 34,10; Dom 6,22)5while I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the Lord. For you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the mountain. He said: (2.Mos 19,16; 2.Mos 20,18; 2.Mos 20,21; 2.Mos 24,2; Gal 3,19)6“‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. (2.Mos 20,2)7“You shall have no other gods before[1] me.8“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.9You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,10but showing steadfast love to thousands[2] of those who love me and keep my commandments. (2.Mos 20,6; Jer 32,18)11“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.12“Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you.13Six days you shall labor and do all your work,14but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. (2.Mos 16,29; 2.Mos 23,12; Heb 4,4)15You shall remember that you were a slave[3] in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. (5.Mos 4,34; 5.Mos 15,15; 5.Mos 16,12; 5.Mos 24,18; 5.Mos 24,22)16“Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, 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. (5.Mos 4,40)17“You shall not murder.[4] (Matt 5,21; Matt 5,27; Luk 18,20; Jak 2,11)18“And you shall not commit adultery. (5.Mos 5,17)19“And you shall not steal.20“And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.21“And you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.’22“These words the Lord spoke to all your assembly at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and he added no more. And he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. (2.Mos 24,12; 5.Mos 4,11; 5.Mos 9,10)23And as soon as you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders. (5.Mos 4,12)24And you said, ‘Behold, the Lord our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire. This day we have seen God speak with man, and man still live. (2.Mos 19,19; 5.Mos 3,24; 5.Mos 4,33)25Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, we shall die. (5.Mos 18,16)26For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire as we have, and has still lived? (5.Mos 5,24)27Go near and hear all that the Lord our God will say, and speak to us all that the Lord our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it.’ (2.Mos 20,19)28“And the Lord heard your words, when you spoke to me. And the Lord said to me, ‘I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They are right in all that they have spoken. (5.Mos 18,17)29Oh that they had such a heart as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants[5] forever! (5.Mos 4,40; 5.Mos 32,29; Salm 81,13; Es 48,18; Matt 23,37; Luk 19,42)30Go and say to them, “Return to your tents.”31But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you the whole commandment and the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.’ (Gal 3,19)32You shall be careful therefore to do as the Lord your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. (5.Mos 17,20; 5.Mos 28,14; Josva 1,7; Josva 23,6; 2.Kong 22,2; Ord 4,27)33You shall walk in all the way that the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess. (5.Mos 4,40; 5.Mos 10,12; 5.Mos 30,16; Jer 7,23; Luk 1,6)