Deuteronomy 10:4 Cross References - NSB

⁴ »He wrote on the tablets, like the former writing. It was the Ten Commandments (Ten Words) that Jehovah proclaimed to you on the mountain. It was from the middle of the fire on the day of the assembly. Jehovah gave them to me.

¹⁷ Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God. They stood at the foot of the mountain. ¹⁸ Mount Sinai was all in smoke because Jehovah descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace. The whole mountain quaked violently!

¹ God spoke all these words: ² »I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of slavery in Egypt. ³ »Do not have any other god. ⁴ »Do not make your own carved idols or statues that represent any creature in the sky, on the earth, or in the water. ⁵ »Do not worship them or serve them. I, Jehovah your God, am a God demanding exclusive devotion. (I do not tolerate rivals.) I will not share your affection with any other god. I punish children for their parents’ sins to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me. ⁶ »I show mercy (loving kindness) to thousands of generations of those who love me and obey my commandments. ⁷ »Never use the name of Jehovah your God in a false and evil way. Jehovah will make sure that anyone who is false, evil, careless and vain with his name will be punished. ⁸ »Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. ⁹ »You have six days to do all your work. ¹⁰ »The seventh day is a Sabbath dedicated to Jehovah your God. Do not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. ¹¹ »Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them in six days. He rested on the seventh day. Therefore Jehovah blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. ¹² »Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land Jehovah your God gives you. ¹³ »Do not murder. ¹⁴ »Do not commit adultery. ¹⁵ »Do not steal. ¹⁶ »Do not (lie) accuse anyone falsely. ¹⁷ »Do not covet (desire) another man’s house. Do not desire his wife, his slaves, his cattle, his donkeys, or anything else that he owns.

²⁸ Moses was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights. He did not eat bread or drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments (Ten Words).

¹¹ »Tell your children how you went close and stood at the foot of the mountain covered with thick clouds of dark smoke and fire blazing up to the sky. ¹² »Tell them how Jehovah spoke to you from the fire. Tell them that you heard him speak but did not see him in any form at all. ¹³ »He told you what you must do to keep the covenant he made with you. You must obey the Ten Commandments, which he wrote on two stone tablets. ¹⁴ »Jehovah told me to teach you all the laws that you are to obey in the land that you are about to invade and occupy. ¹⁵ »Be careful! When God spoke to you from the fire, he was invisible.

¹⁰ »Then Jehovah gave me the two stone tablets inscribed by God’s finger (Holy Spirit). On them were written all the words Jehovah spoke to you from the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly.

⁴ »Jehovah talked with you face to face on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, ⁵ »I stood between Jehovah and you at that time, to declare to you the word of Jehovah. You were afraid because of the fire. So you would not go up onto the mountain. He said: ⁶ »‘I am Jehovah your God. I brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. ⁷ »‘Do not have any other god but me. ⁸ »‘Do not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above, or on the earth below, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: ⁹ »‘Do not bow down to them. Do not serve them! For I Jehovah your God am a totally demanding zealous God. I require exclusive devotion and punish the fathers and children who hate me to the third and fourth generation. ¹⁰ »‘I show loving kindness to thousands of generations who love me and obey my commandments. ¹¹ »‘Do not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain. Jehovah will not leave him unpunished who takes his name in vain. ¹² »‘Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it (keep it holy), as Jehovah your God has commanded you. ¹³ »‘Do all your work in six days. ¹⁴ »‘The seventh day is the Sabbath of Jehovah your God: in it you should not do any work. Your son and daughter should not work. Your manservant and maidservant should not work. Your ox, donkey, cattle or any stranger living with you should not work. Your manservant and maidservant should rest as much as you do. ¹⁵ »‘Remember that you were servants in the land of Egypt, and that Jehovah your God brought you out through a mighty act. Jehovah your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. ¹⁶ »‘Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God commands you and your days will be prolonged and things will go well with you, in the land Jehovah gives you. ¹⁷ »‘Do not kill. ¹⁸ »‘Do not commit adultery. ¹⁹ »‘Do not steal. ²⁰ »‘Do not bear false witness against another man. ²¹ »‘Do not desire another man's wife; do not covet another man's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his donkey, or any thing that belongs to him.’ ²² »Jehovah spoke to us when we gathered on the mountain. He spoke with a loud voice from the dark fiery cloud. Jehovah gave us these words, and only these. Then he wrote them on two flat tablets of stone and gave them to me. ²³ »Fire blazed from the mountain, and you heard the voice coming from the darkness. Then your elders came to me. ²⁴ »They said: ‘Today Jehovah our God has shown us how powerful and glorious he is. He spoke to us from the fire. We learned that people could live, even though God speaks to them. ²⁵ »‘We do not want to take a chance on being killed by that terrible fire. If we hear Jehovah’s voice again we will die. ²⁶ »‘Has any other human ever heard the only true God speaking from fire, as we have? And if they have, would they live to tell about it?

¹⁶ »This is according to all that you asked of Jehovah your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly. You said: Let me not hear again the voice of Jehovah my God. Do not let me see this great fire anymore, or I will die.

¹⁸ You have not come to a mountain that can be touched, to Mount Sinai with its blazing fire, the darkness and the gloom, the storm. ¹⁹ You have not come to the blast of a trumpet, and the sound of a voice. When the people heard the voice, they begged not to hear another word.