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New American Standard Bible (1995)

Deuteronomy 5:17

'You shall not murder.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Decalogue;   Homicide;   Law;   Obedience;   Quotations and Allusions;   Table;   Scofield Reference Index - Law of Moses;   The Topic Concordance - Commandment;   Violence;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Murder;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Abortion;   Command, Commandment;   Ethics;   Evil;   Law;   Life;   Murder;   Ten Commandments;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Moses;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Law;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Baptism of Fire;   Ethics;   Festivals;   Law, Ten Commandments, Torah;   Life;   Murder;   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 - Life;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Decalogue;   Homicide;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"You shall not murder.
King James Version
Thou shalt not kill.
Lexham English Bible
‘You shall not murder.
English Standard Version
"‘You shall not murder.
New Century Version
"You must not murder anyone.
New English Translation
You must not murder.
Amplified Bible
'You shall not murder.
New American Standard Bible
'You shall not murder.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou shalt not kill.
Legacy Standard Bible
‘You shall not murder.
Contemporary English Version
Do not murder.
Complete Jewish Bible
ו "‘Do not murder. ז "‘Do not commit adultery. ח "‘Do not steal. ט "‘Do not give false evidence against your neighbor.
Darby Translation
Thou shalt not kill.
Easy-to-Read Version
‘You must not murder anyone.
George Lamsa Translation
You shall not kill.
Good News Translation
"‘Do not commit murder.
Christian Standard Bible®
Do not murder.
Literal Translation
You shall not commit murder.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou shalt not kyll.
American Standard Version
Thou shalt not kill.
Bible in Basic English
Do not put anyone to death without cause.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou shalt not slay.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's wife; neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.
King James Version (1611)
Thou shalt not kill.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou shalt not commit murder.
English Revised Version
Thou shalt do no murder.
Berean Standard Bible
You shall not murder.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt not sle.
Young's Literal Translation
`Thou dost not murder.
Update Bible Version
You shall not kill.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt not kill.
World English Bible
"You shall not murder.
New King James Version
"You shall not murder.
New Living Translation
"You must not murder.
New Life Bible
‘Do not kill another person.
New Revised Standard
You shall not murder.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou shalt not commit murder:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not kill.
Revised Standard Version
"'You shall not kill.
THE MESSAGE
No murder.

Contextual Overview

6 'I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 7 'You shall have no other gods before Me. 8 'You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. 9 'You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, 10 but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. 11 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain. 12 'Observe the sabbath day to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. 13 'Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 14 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant or your ox or your donkey or any of your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you, so that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. 15 'You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to observe the sabbath day.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 20:13, Matthew 5:21, Matthew 5:22

Reciprocal: Malachi 3:5 - the sorcerers James 2:11 - Do not commit

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 17-20. Thou shalt not kill,.... The following commands begin with the copulative "and", different from the manner in which they are expressed, Exodus 20:17 which joins these together, and them with the preceding ones; hence the law is by some said to be one copulative, and may serve to illustrate a passage in James 2:10.

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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