Deuteronomy 5:26-33

26 No human being has ever heard the living God speaking from a fire and still lived, but we have.

27 Moses, you go near and listen to everything the Lord our God says. Then you tell us what the Lord our God tells you, and we will listen and obey."

28 The Lord heard what you said to me, and he said to me, "I have heard what the people said to you. Everything they said was good.

29 I wish their hearts would always respect me and that they would always obey my commands so that things would go well for them and their children forever!

30 "Go and tell the people to return to their tents,

31 but you stay here with me so that I may give you all the commands, rules, and laws that you must teach the people to obey in the land I am giving them as their own."

32 So be careful to do what the Lord your God has commanded you, and follow the commands exactly.

33 Live the way the Lord your God has commanded you so that you may live and have what is good and have a long life in the land you will take.

Deuteronomy 5:26-33 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 5

In this chapter Moses, after a short preface, De 5:1-5, repeats the law of the decalogue, or ten commands, with some little variation, De 5:6-21, and then reminds the Israelites of the terrible manner in which it was delivered to them, De 5:22,23 which put them upon making a request that Moses might be a mediator between God and them, and hear what the Lord had to say, and report it to them; to which they promised obedience, De 5:24-27 and which being agreeable to the Lord was granted, De 5:28-31, and this laid them under a greater obligation to observe the commands of God, and keep them, De 5:32,33.