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Deuteronomy 5:3
3He didn’t make this promise to our ancestors, but to all of us who are alive here today.
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 summoned all Israel and said to them: Israel, listen to the laws and rules I’m telling you today. Learn them and faithfully obey them. 2The Lord our God made a promise to us at Mount Horeb. He didn’t make this promise to our ancestors, but to all of us who are alive here today. 4The Lord spoke to you face to face from the fire on the mountain. 5I stood between the Lord and you to tell you the Lord’s word, because you were afraid of the fire and didn’t go up on the mountain. The Lord said:
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לֹ֣א אֶת־אֲבֹתֵ֔ינוּ כָּרַ֥ת יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־הַבְּרִ֣ית הַזֹּ֑את כִּ֣י אִתָּ֗נוּ אֲנַ֨חְנוּ אֵ֥לֶּה פֹ֛ה הַיּ֖וֹם כֻּלָּ֥נוּ חַיִּֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Deuteronomy 5:3
- Deuteronomy 29:10All of you are standing here today in the presence of the Lord your God. The heads of your tribes, your leaders, your officers, and all the men of Israel are here.
- Genesis 17:7I will make my promise to you and your descendants for generations to come as an everlasting promise. I will be your God and the God of your descendants.
- Psalms 105:8He always remembers his promise, the word that he commanded for a thousand generations,
- Jeremiah 32:38They will be my people, and I will be their God.
- Matthew 13:17I can guarantee this truth: Many prophets and many of God’s people longed to see what you see but didn’t see it, to hear what you hear but didn’t hear it.
- Galatians 3:17This is what I mean: The laws ⌞given to Moses⌟ 430 years after God had already put his promise ⌞to Abraham⌟ into effect didn’t cancel the promise ⌞to Abraham⌟.
- Hebrews 8:8But God found something wrong with his people and said to them, “The days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new promise to Israel and Judah.
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
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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
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