Deuteronomy 5:17

The NET Bible®

You must not murder.

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
"‘You shall not murder.

Update Bible Version
You shall not kill.

English Revised Version
Thou shalt do no murder.

New Century Version
"You must not murder anyone.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt not kill.

World English Bible
"You shall not murder.

Amplified Bible
'You shall not murder.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt not sle.

Young's Literal Translation
`Thou dost not murder.

Berean Standard Bible
You shall not murder.

Contemporary English Version
Do not murder.

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.

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.

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.

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:

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou shalt not kill.

George Lamsa Translation
You shall not kill.

Good News Translation
"‘Do not commit murder.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not kill.

Revised Standard Version
"'You shall not kill.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou shalt not commit murder.

Christian Standard Bible®
Do not murder.

Hebrew Names Version
"You shall not murder.

King James Version
Thou shalt not kill.

Lexham English Bible
‘You shall not murder.

Literal Translation
You shall not commit murder.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou shalt not kyll.

THE MESSAGE
No murder.

New American Standard Bible
'You shall not murder.

New King James Version
"You shall not murder.

New Living Translation
"You must not murder.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'You shall not murder.

Legacy Standard Bible
‘You shall not murder.

Contextual Overview

⁶ "I am the Lord your God, he who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the place of slavery. ⁷ You must not have any other gods besides me. ⁸ You must not make for yourself an image of anything in heaven above, on earth below, or in the waters beneath. ⁹ You must not worship or serve them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. I punish the sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons for the sin of the fathers who reject me, ¹⁰ but I show covenant faithfulness to the thousands who choose me and keep my commandments. ¹¹ You must not make use of the name of the Lord your God for worthless purposes, for the Lord will not exonerate anyone who abuses his name that way. ¹² Be careful to observe the Sabbath day just as the Lord your God has commanded you. ¹³ You are to work and do all your tasks in six days, ¹⁴ but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. On that day you must not do any work, you, your son, your daughter, your male slave, your female slave, your ox, your donkey, any other animal, or the foreigner who lives with you, so that your male and female slaves, like yourself, may have rest. ¹⁵ Recall that you were slaves in the land of Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out of there by strength and power. That is why the Lord your God has 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.