Deuteronomy 5:2
What does Deuteronomy 5:2 mean?
A plain-English look at Deuteronomy 5:2 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Jehovah our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
KJV
King James Version · 1611The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Jehovah our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949The Lord our God made an agreement with us in Horeb.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Jehovah our God made with us a covenant in Horeb;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Jehovah ourGod made a covenant with us in Horeb.
Context
v.1And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and observe to do them.
v.2This passage
v.3Jehovah made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 24:8
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which Jehovah hath made with you concerning all these words.
- Deuteronomy 4:23
Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image in the form of anything which Jehovah thy God hath forbidden thee.
- Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be mine own possession from among all peoples: for all the earth is mine:
- Hebrews 9:19
For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses unto all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
- Hebrews 8:6
But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.
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