Deuteronomychapter 5
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Original Language
Deuteronomy 5— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Deuteronomy 5. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.
The reading
Weekly portion 45 of 54
וָאֶתְחַנַּן Va'etchanan, Deuteronomy 3:23 to 7:11
Read with it: Isaiah 40:1 to 40:26.
The verse numbers here are the ones a Hebrew Bible carries, which differ from an English Bible by a verse or two in several places. The Sephardi reading is named only where this site records a difference; communities vary beyond what is listed. What these books are, and how a Christian reader meets them →
Where the rabbis cite this chapter
5 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 5 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
Not with our fathers, but with us1
Deuteronomy 5:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Ibn Ezra on Deuteronomy 5:1
As I have explained, 1 See I.E. on Deut.:5. to make the children hear the words of the covenant. 2 The Decalogue.
Read it in full at Sefaria · Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch, tran. and annot. by H. Norman Strickman and Arthur M. Silver. Menorah Pub., 1988-2004
Deuteronomy 5:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 5:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 5:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 5:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
The ten words spoken out of the fire6
Deuteronomy 5:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 5:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 5:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 5:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 5:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Onkelos Deuteronomy 5:10
and performs kindliness for thousands [of generations] for those who love Me and for those who guard My commandments.
Read it in full at Sefaria · Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]
Deuteronomy 5:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 5:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 5:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 5:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Ramban on Deuteronomy 5:14
He added here [in the commandment on the Sabbath] stating nor thine ox, nor thine ass. Verse.
Read it in full at Sefaria · Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976
Deuteronomy 5:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Ramban on Deuteronomy 5:15
The meaning thereof is that He commanded you to do so [give rest to the servant] on the Sabbath-day. So did Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra explain it.
Read it in full at Sefaria · Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976
Deuteronomy 5:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Deuteronomy 5:16
כאשר צוך [HONOUR THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER] AS THE LORD THY GOD HATH COMMANDED THEE — Also regarding honouring parents they received command at Marah, as it is said, (Exodus:25) “There He appointed for them a statute and a judgement” (cf. Rashi on that passage and Note p. 243) (Sanhedrin 56b).
Read it in full at Sefaria · Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934
Deuteronomy 5:17· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 5:18· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 5:19· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 5:20· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 5:21· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
You speak to us, and we will hear22
Deuteronomy 5:22· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 5:23· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 5:24· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 5:25· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 5:26· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 5:27· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 5:28· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 5:29· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 5:30· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 5:31· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 5:32· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 5:33· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
