Lectionary Calendar
Thursday, December 25th, 2025
Christmas Day
Attention!
Tired of seeing ads while studying? Now you can enjoy an "Ads Free" version of the site for as little as 10¢ a day and support a great cause!
Click here to learn more!

Read the Bible

Bible in Basic English

Deuteronomy 5:19

Do not take the property of another.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Decalogue;   Law;   Obedience;   Table;   Theft and Thieves;   Scofield Reference Index - Law of Moses;   The Topic Concordance - Commandment;   Theft;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Ethics;   Evil;   Law;   Ten Commandments;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Moses;   Theft;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Law;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Baptism of Fire;   Ethics;   Festivals;   Law, Ten Commandments, Torah;   Pentateuch;   Robbery;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuteronomy;   Law;   Ten Commandments;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Numbers (2);  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Encampment at Sinai;   Events of the Encampment;   Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bat Ḳol;   Decalogue;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"Neither shall you steal.
King James Version
Neither shalt thou steal.
Lexham English Bible
‘And you shall not steal.
English Standard Version
"‘And you shall not steal.
New Century Version
"You must not steal.
New English Translation
You must not steal.
Amplified Bible
'You shall not steal.
New American Standard Bible
'You shall not steal.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Neither shalt thou steale.
Legacy Standard Bible
‘You shall not steal.
Contemporary English Version
Do not steal.
Complete Jewish Bible
(A: v, S: iv) "These words Adonai spoke to your entire gathering at the mountain from fire, cloud and thick mist, in a loud voice; then it ceased. But he wrote them on two stone tablets, which he gave to me.
Darby Translation
Neither shalt thou steal.
Easy-to-Read Version
‘You must not steal.
George Lamsa Translation
You shall not steal.
Good News Translation
"‘Do not steal.
Christian Standard Bible®
Do not steal.
Literal Translation
And you shall not steal.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou shalt not steale.
American Standard Version
Neither shalt thou steal.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou shalt not steale.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain did burn with fire, that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
King James Version (1611)
Neither shalt thou steale.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou shalt not steal.
English Revised Version
Neither shalt thou steal.
Berean Standard Bible
You shall not steal.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thou schalt not do thefte.
Young's Literal Translation
`Thou dost not steal.
Update Bible Version
Neither shall you steal.
Webster's Bible Translation
Neither shalt thou steal.
World English Bible
"Neither shall you steal.
New King James Version
"You shall not steal.
New Living Translation
"You must not steal.
New Life Bible
‘Do not steal.
New Revised Standard
Neither shall you steal.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Neither shalt thou steal:
Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt not steal.
Revised Standard Version
"'Neither shall you steal.
THE MESSAGE
No stealing.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'You shall not steal.

Contextual Overview

6 I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house. 7 You are to have no other gods but me. 8 You may not make for yourselves an image in the form of anything in heaven or on earth or in the waters under the earth: 9 You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters; 10 And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws. 11 You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged as a sinner by the Lord. 12 Keep the Sabbath day as a holy day, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God. 13 On six days do all your work: 14 But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day do no work, you or your son or your daughter, or your man-servant or your woman-servant, or your ox or your ass or any of your cattle, or the man from a strange country who is living among you; so that your man-servant and your woman-servant may have rest as well as you. 15 And keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord your God took you out of that land by his strong hand and his stretched-out arm: for this reason the Lord has given you orders to keep the Sabbath day.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 20:15, Romans 13:9, Ephesians 4:28

Reciprocal: Genesis 44:8 - how then Leviticus 19:11 - shall not Psalms 106:3 - at all times Habakkuk 1:7 - their judgment

Gill's Notes on the Bible

:-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Exodus 20:0 and notes.

Moses here adopts the Ten Words as a ground from which he may proceed to reprove, warn, and exhort; and repeats them, with a certain measure of freedom and adaptation. Our Lord Mark 10:19 and Paul Ephesians 6:2-3 deal similarly with the same subject. Speaker and hearers recognized, however, a statutory and authoritative form of the laws in question, which, because it was familiar to both parties, needed not to be reproduced with verbal fidelity.

Deuteronomy 5:12-15

The exhortation to observe the Sabbath and allow time of rest to servants (compare Exodus 23:12) is pointed by reminding the people that they too were formerly servants themselves. The bondage in Egypt and the deliverance from it are not assigned as grounds for the institution of the Sabbath, which is of far older date (see Genesis 2:3), but rather as suggesting motives for the religious observance of that institution. The Exodus was an entrance into rest from the toils of the house of bondage, and is thought actually to have occurred on the Sabbath day or “rest” day.

Deuteronomy 5:16

The blessing of general well-being here annexed to the keeping of the fifth commandment, is no real addition to the promise, but only an amplification of its expression.

Deuteronomy 5:21

The “field” is added to the list of objects specifically forbidden in the parallel passage Exodus 20:17. The addition seems very natural in one who was speaking with the partition of Canaan among his hearers directly in view.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile