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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Deuteronomy 5:2

Yahweh our God, solemnised with us a covenant in Horeb:

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.
Contemporary English Version
The Lord our God made an agreement with our nation at Mount Sinai.
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.
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 Then called Moses unto all Israel and said unto them - Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the regulations, which I am speaking in your ears to-day, - so shall ye learn them, and observe to do them. 2 Yahweh our God, solemnised with us a covenant in Horeb: 3 not with our fathers did Yahweh solemnise this covenant, - but with us, ourselves - these here to-day, all of us living. 4 Face to face, spake Yahweh with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire, 5 (I was standing between Yahweh and you, at that time, to declare unto you the word of Yahweh, - for ye shrank with fear from the presence of the fire, and went not up in the mount) saying: -

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
And God created the man in his own image, In the image of God, created he him, - Male and female, created he, them.
Genesis 2:15
So Yahweh God took the man, - and placed him in the garden of Eden, to till it and to keeps it.
Genesis 2:23
And the man said, This, one, now, is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh! This, one shall be called Woman, for, out of a man, hath this one been taken.
Malachi 2:15
Now was it not, One, who made you who had, the residue of the spirit? What, then, of that One? He was seeking a godly seed. Therefore should ye take heed to your spirit, and, with the wife of thy youth, do not thou deal treacherously.
Matthew 19:4
And, he, answering, said - Did ye never read - He who created at the beginning, Male and female, made them, -
Mark 10:6
But, from the beginning of creation, male and female, made he them;
Acts 17:26
he made also, of one, every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, - marking out fitting opportunities, and the bounds of their dwelling place,

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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