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Good News Translation

Deuteronomy 5:18

"‘Do not 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.
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.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Neither shalt thou 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 the Lord your God, who rescued you from Egypt, where you were slaves. 7 "‘Worship no god but me. 8 "‘Do not make for yourselves images of anything in heaven or on earth or in the water under the earth. 9 Do not bow down to any idol or worship it, for I am the Lord your God and I tolerate no rivals. I bring punishment on those who hate me and on their descendants down to the third and fourth generation. 10 But I show my love to thousands of generations of those who love me and obey my laws. 11 "‘Do not use my name for evil purposes, for I, the Lord your God, will punish anyone who misuses my name. 12 "‘Observe the Sabbath and keep it holy, as I, the Lord your God, have commanded you. 13 You have six days in which to do your work, 14 but the seventh day is a day of rest dedicated to me. On that day no one is to work—neither you, your children, your slaves, your animals, nor the foreigners who live in your country. Your slaves must rest just as you do. 15 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and that I, the Lord your God, rescued you by my great power and strength. That is why I command you to observe the Sabbath.

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
Cain and his wife had a son and named him Enoch. Then Cain built a city and named it after his son.
Genesis 5:14
and died at the age of 910.
Genesis 5:15
When Mahalalel was 65, he had a son, Jared,
1 Chronicles 1:3
Jared was the father of Enoch, who was the father of Methuselah; Methuselah was the father of Lamech,
Luke 3:37
the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Kenan,

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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