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Deuteronomy 5:3 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: King James Version
" The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. "
Deuteronomy 5:3
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
1 And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
3 The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
4 The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
5 (I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,
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Deuteronomy 5:1
"And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them."
Deuteronomy 5:2
"The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb."
Deuteronomy 5:4
"The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,"
Deuteronomy 5:5
"(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,"
Deuteronomy 5:6
"I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage."
Deuteronomy 5:7
"Thou shalt have none other gods before me."
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