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Contemporary English Version

Deuteronomy 5:2

The Lord our God made an agreement with our nation at Mount Sinai.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Covenant;   Horeb;   Law;   Obedience;   Scofield Reference Index - Law of Moses;   Thompson Chain Reference - Horeb, Mount;   Mountains;   The Topic Concordance - Covenant;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Law of Moses, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Execution;   Sinai;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Moses;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Horeb;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuteronomy;   Law;   Ten Commandments;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Dependence;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Horeb;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Encampment at Sinai;   Events of the Encampment;   Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Deuteronomy;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horev.
King James Version
The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
Lexham English Bible
Yahweh our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
English Standard Version
The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
New Century Version
The Lord our God made an Agreement with us at Mount Sinai.
New English Translation
The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
Amplified Bible
"The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
New American Standard Bible
"The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The Lord our God made a couenant with vs in Horeb.
Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh our God cut a covenant with us at Horeb.
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai our God made a covenant with us at Horev.
Darby Translation
Jehovah our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord our God made an agreement with us at Mount Horeb.
George Lamsa Translation
The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
Good News Translation
At Mount Sinai the Lord our God made a covenant,
Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
Literal Translation
Jehovah your God cut a covenant with us in Horeb.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The LORDE oure God made a couenaunt with vs at Horeb:
American Standard Version
Jehovah our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
Bible in Basic English
The Lord our God made an agreement with us in Horeb.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Lord our God made a couenaunt with vs in Horeb.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
King James Version (1611)
The Lord our God made a couenant with vs in Horeb.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The Lord your God made a covenant with you in Choreb.
English Revised Version
The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
Berean Standard Bible
The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Oure Lord God made a boond of pees with vs in Oreb;
Young's Literal Translation
Jehovah our God made with us a covenant in Horeb;
Update Bible Version
Yahweh our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
World English Bible
Yahweh our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
New King James Version
The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
New Living Translation
"The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Mount Sinai.
New Life Bible
The Lord our God made an agreement with us at Mount Sinai.
New Revised Standard
The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yahweh our God, solemnised with us a covenant in Horeb:
Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
Revised Standard Version
The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
THE MESSAGE
God , our God, made a covenant with us at Horeb. God didn't just make this covenant with our parents; he made it also with us, with all of us who are alive right now. God spoke to you personally out of the fire on the mountain. At the time I stood between God and you, to tell you what God said. You were afraid, remember, of the fire and wouldn't climb the mountain. He said:
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

Contextual Overview

1 Moses called together the people of Israel and said: Today I am telling you the laws and teachings that you must follow, so listen carefully. 2 The Lord our God made an agreement with our nation at Mount Sinai. 3 That agreement wasn't only with our ancestors but with us, who are here today. 4 The Lord himself spoke to you out of the fire, 5 but you were afraid of the fire and refused to go up the mountain. So I spoke with the Lord for you, then I told you that he had said:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 4:23, Exodus 19:5-8, Exodus 24:8, Hebrews 8:6-13, Hebrews 9:19-23

Reciprocal: Exodus 34:10 - I make Deuteronomy 1:6 - in Horeb Deuteronomy 4:10 - the day Deuteronomy 26:17 - avouched Deuteronomy 29:1 - beside the Deuteronomy 29:12 - thou shouldest Joshua 24:25 - made 2 Kings 11:17 - made a covenant 2 Chronicles 23:16 - made a covenant Jeremiah 11:4 - I commanded Jeremiah 34:13 - I made Hebrews 8:9 - the covenant

Cross-References

Genesis 1:27
So God created humans to be like himself; he made men and women.
Genesis 2:15
The Lord God put the man in the Garden of Eden to take care of it and to look after it.
Genesis 2:23
and the man exclaimed, "Here is someone like me! She is part of my body, my own flesh and bones. She came from me, a man. So I will name her Woman!"
Malachi 2:15
Didn't God create you to become like one person with your wife? And why did he do this? It was so you would have children, and then lead them to become God's people. Don't ever be unfaithful to your wife.
Matthew 19:4
Jesus answered, "Don't you know that in the beginning the Creator made a man and a woman?
Mark 10:6
But in the beginning God made a man and a woman.
Acts 17:26
From one person God made all nations who live on earth, and he decided when and where every nation would be.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. Which is Sinai, as Aben Ezra observes; it being the same mountain, only it had two tops, which bore these different names; for certain it is that the decalogue after repeated was given at Sinai, and had the nature and form of a covenant; see Exodus 24:7.


 
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