Deuteronomy 5:3

Deuteronomy 5:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
• New International Version (NIV)It was not with our ancestors that the Lord made this covenant, but with us, with all of us who are alive here today.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Not with our fathers did the Lord make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today.
• New King James Version (NKJV)The Lord did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, those who are here today, all of us who are alive.

Context of Deuteronomy 5:3

1Moses called all the Israelites to come together. He said to them: Listen, Israelites, to the rules and commands that I am teaching to you today. Learn them. Be careful to obey them. 2The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Sinai. He did not make this agreement with our ancestors. He made it with all of us who are alive here today. 4The Lord spoke clearly to you from the middle of the fire on the mountain. 5(At that time, I stood between the Lord and you. I repeated the Lord's message to you. You were afraid of the fire, so you did not go up the mountain.) God said this:

Deuteronomy 5:3 word by word

לֹ֣א אֶת־אֲבֹתֵ֔ינוּ כָּרַ֥ת יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־הַבְּרִ֣ית הַזֹּ֑את כִּ֣י אִתָּ֗נוּ אֲנַ֨חְנוּ אֵ֥לֶּה פֹ֛ה הַיּ֖וֹם כֻּלָּ֥נוּ חַיִּֽים׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• The Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• madeכָּרַתkârath · to cut: make(covenant)H3772
• not this covenantבְּרִיתberîyth · covenantH1285
• with our fathersאָב'âb · fatherH1
• but with usאֲנַ֫חְנוּ'ănachnû · weH587
• all of usאֵ֫לֶּה'êlleh · theseH428
• here aliveחַיchay · aliveH2416
• this dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117

Cross-references for Deuteronomy 5:3

• Deuteronomy 29:10The Lord your God sees all of you today as you stand here. He sees your leaders, your important men, your officers and all Israelite men.
• Genesis 17:7My covenant with you is very strong. I am making it with you and with your descendants. It will continue for generation after generation of your descendants, for all time. I will be your God. I will also be the God of all your descendants.
• Psalms 105:8He will always remember the covenant that he made with us. He made that promise to continue for ever.
• Jeremiah 32:38They will be my people and I will be their God.
• Matthew 13:17I tell you this: Many prophets and good people from a long time ago wanted to see these things. But they did not see the things that you are seeing. They wanted to hear the message that you are hearing. But they did not hear it.’
• Galatians 3:17What I mean is this: God made an agreement with Abraham. He promised to bless him. Then, 430 years later, God gave his Law to Moses for the Jewish people. But that Law could not take away the authority of God's agreement with Abraham. It could not stop what God had already promised.
• Hebrews 8:8But God did find something wrong with it. As a result, he said this to his people: ‘Listen to this! The Lord says: A time will come when I make a new agreement with my people. That is, with Israel's people and with Judah's people.

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 5:3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers (only) but with us (also).Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3The “fathers” are, as in Deuteronomy 4:37, the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. With them God did indeed make a covenant, but not the particular covenant now in question. The responsibilites of this later covenant, made at Sinai by the nation as a nation, attached in their day and generation to those whom Moses was addressing.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-32The 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.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us--The meaning is, "not with our fathers" only, "but with us" also, assuming it to be "a covenant" of grace. It may mean "not with our fathers" at all, if the reference is to the peculiar establishment of the covenant of Sinai; a law was not given to them as to us, nor was the covenant ratified in the same public manner and by the same solemn sanctions. Or, finally, the meaning may be "not…Read the comment

Topics related to Deuteronomy 5:3

• Covenant
• Law
• Obedience

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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings