Deuteronomy 5:3

Translations

Modern

He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.

Traditional

The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

Literal

Not with our fathers did YHWH make this covenant, but with us—we, these here today, all of us who are alive.

Latin

Non cum patribus nostris iniit pactum, sed nobiscum qui in præsentiarum sumus, et vivimus.

Original

Hebrew

English

He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.

Notes

Deuteronomy 5:1–32

The rest of the covenant laws explain and apply the Ten Commandments (5:6–21). These laws are based on those commandments.

Moses first gave the Ten Commandments to the people of Israel almost 40 years earlier at Mount Sinai (Exodus 20:2–17). Now he reminds the people of these commands before they enter the promised land.

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Deuteronomy 29:10–15
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For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.
Genesis 17:21
But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”
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But God found fault with the people and said: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
Jeremiah 32:38–40
They will be My people, and I will be their God.
Galatians 3:17–21
What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.
Psalm 105:8–10
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Genesis 17:7
I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

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Topics

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