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Deuteronomy 5:18

Neither shalt thou commit adultery:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Commandments;   Decalogue;   Law;   Obedience;   Quotations and Allusions;   Table;   Scofield Reference Index - Law of Moses;   Thompson Chain Reference - Chastity;   Chastity-Impurity;   Purity;   Social Duties;   The Topic Concordance - Adultery;   Commandment;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Command, Commandment;   Ethics;   Evil;   Law;   Ten Commandments;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Moses;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Law;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Baptism of Fire;   Ethics;   Festivals;   Law, Ten Commandments, Torah;   Pentateuch;   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;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adultery;   Family;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Covetousness;   Decalogue;   Judah I.;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"Neither shall you commit adultery.
King James Version
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
Lexham English Bible
‘And you shall not commit adultery.
English Standard Version
"‘And you shall not commit adultery.
New Century Version
"You must not be guilty of adultery.
New English Translation
You must not commit adultery.
Amplified Bible
'You shall not commit adultery.
New American Standard Bible
'You shall not commit adultery.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Neither shalt thou commit adulterie.
Legacy Standard Bible
‘You shall not commit adultery.
Contemporary English Version
Be faithful in marriage.
Complete Jewish Bible
י "‘Do not covet your neighbor's wife; do not covet your neighbor's house, his field, his male or female slave, his ox, his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.'
Darby Translation
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
Easy-to-Read Version
‘You must not commit the sin of adultery.
George Lamsa Translation
You shall not commit adultery.
Good News Translation
"‘Do not commit adultery.
Christian Standard Bible®
Do not commit adultery.
Literal Translation
And you shall not commit adultery.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou shalt not breake wedlocke.
American Standard Version
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
Bible in Basic English
Do not be false to the married relation.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou shalt not commit adulterie.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
These words the LORD spoke unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice, and it went on no more. And He wrote them upon two tables of stone, and gave them unto me.
King James Version (1611)
Neither shalt thou commit adulterie.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
English Revised Version
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
Berean Standard Bible
You shall not commit adultery.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt not do letcherie.
Young's Literal Translation
`Thou dost not commit adultery.
Update Bible Version
Neither shall you commit adultery.
Webster's Bible Translation
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
World English Bible
"Neither shall you commit adultery.
New King James Version
"You shall not commit adultery.
New Living Translation
"You must not commit adultery.
New Life Bible
‘Do not do sex sins.
New Revised Standard
Neither shall you commit adultery.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
Revised Standard Version
"'Neither shall you commit adultery.
THE MESSAGE
No adultery.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'You shall not commit adultery.

Contextual Overview

6 I, am Yahweh thy God, who have brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt out of the house of servants: - 7 Thou shalt not have other gods, besides me: 8 Thou shalt not make unto thee an image, any form that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the waters beneath the earth: 9 thou shalt not bow thyself down to them nor be led to serve them, - for, I Yahweh thy God, am a jealous GOD, visiting the iniquity of fathers upon sons even unto three generations and unto four, unto them that hate me; 10 but shewing lovingkindness unto a thousand generation - unto them who love me, and keep my commandments: 11 Thou shalt not utter the name of Yahweh thy God, for falsehood, - for Yahweh will not at him go unpunished who uttereth his name for falsehood: 12 Observe the sabbath day, to hallow it, - as Yahweh thy God, hath commanded thee: 13 six days, shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; 14 but, the seventh day, is a sabbath unto Yahweh thy God, - thou shalt do no work - thou nor thy son nor thy daughter nor thy servant nor thy handmaid nor thine ox nor thine ass nor any of thy cattle, nor thy sojourner who is within thy gates, that thy servant and thy handmaid may rest, as well as thou. 15 So shalt thou remember that a servant, wast thou in the land of Egypt, and that Yahweh thy God brought thee forth from thence, with a firm hand, and with a stretched-out arm, - for this cause, hath Yahweh thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 20:14, Proverbs 6:32, Proverbs 6:33, Matthew 5:27, Matthew 5:28, Luke 18:20, James 2:10, James 2:11

Reciprocal: Leviticus 18:20 - General Jeremiah 5:8 - every one

Cross-References

Genesis 4:17
And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and bare Enoch, - Now it happened that he was building a city, so he called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
Genesis 5:14
and all the days of Kenan were, nine hundred and ten years, - and he died.
Genesis 5:15
And Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, - and begat Jared;
1 Chronicles 1:3
Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech:
Luke 3:37
of Methuselah, of Enoch, of Jared, - of Mahalaleel, of Cainan:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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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.


 
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