The Fifth Commandment:

 

(Exo 20:12) "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

 

The Sixth Commandment:

 

(Ex 20:13) “You shall not murder.”

 

 

 

(Ex 20:14) "You shall not commit adultery.

 

 

(Ex 20:15) "You shall not steal.

 

 

(Ex 20:16) "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.   (Exo 20:16 NCV)  "You must not tell lies about your neighbor.

 

 

(Ex 20:17) "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."

 

 

(Exo 20:18-26 NKJV)  Now all the people witnessed the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off.

 

 

 (Ex 19:12) "You shall set bounds for the people all around, saying, 'Take heed to yourselves that you do not go up to the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death. {13} 'Not a hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with an arrow; whether man or beast, he shall not live.' When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come near the mountain."

 

 

(Heb 12:18-22 NKJV)  For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest, {19} and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore.

 (Heb 12:20) (For they could not endure what was commanded: "And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow." {21} And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, "I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.")

 

 

(Ex 20:19) Then they said to Moses, "You speak with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die."

 

 

(Gal 3:19 NKJV)  What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator.  [the mediator was Moses.]

 

(Ex 20:20) And Moses said to the people, "Do not fear; for God has come to test you, and that His fear may be before you, so that you may not sin."

 

I hesitate to ask, but who was right?

Was it Moses, or was it the people?

 

(Exo 19:24 NKJV)  Then the LORD said to him, "Away! Get down and then come up, you and Aaron with you. But do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to the LORD, lest He break out against them."

 

 

(1 Tim 6:16 NKJV)  who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.

 

I believe God was trying to impress upon the children of Israel His awesomeness, His splendor, and His glory.  That’s why He wanted them to “stand back,” so to speak.

 

(Deu 5:21-29 NKJV)  'You shall not covet your neighbor's wife; and you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, his male servant, his female servant, his ox, his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.' {22} "These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly, in the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and He added no more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. {23} "So it was, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders.

{24} "And you said: 'Surely the LORD our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire. We have seen this day that God speaks with man; yet he still lives. {25} 'Now therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the LORD our God anymore, then we shall die.

{26} 'For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? {27} 'You go near and hear all that the LORD our God may say, and tell us all that the LORD our God says to you, and we will hear and do it.' {28} "Then the LORD heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me, and the LORD said to me: 'I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They are right in all that they have spoken. {29} 'Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear Me and always keep all My commandments, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

 

 

(Ex 20:21) So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was. {22} Then the LORD said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: 'You have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

 

(Ex 20:23) 'You shall not make anything to be with Me; gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves.

 

Here they are commanded, “ye shall not make gods of silver or gold” אתי  itti With me, as emblems or representatives of God, in order, as might be pretended, to keep these displays of his magnificence in memory; on the contrary, he would have only an altar of earth - of plain turf, on which they should offer those sacrifices by which they should commemorate their own guilt and the necessity of an atonement to reconcile themselves to God. – Adam Clarke

 

(Ex. 20:24) 'An altar of earth you shall make for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record My name I will come to you, and I will bless you.

 

 

In every place where I record My name

זכר

zâkar

BDB Definition:

1) to remember, recall, call to mind

1a) (Qal) to remember, recall

1b) (Niphal) to be brought to remembrance, be remembered, be thought of, be brought to mind

1c) (Hiphil)

1c1) to cause to remember, remind

1c2) to cause to be remembered, keep in remembrance

1c3) to mention

1c4) to record

1c5) to make a memorial, make remembrance

 

How important to remember God.

“In every place where I record My name I will come to you, and I will bless you.”

(Psa 9:17 NKJV)  The wicked shall be turned into hell, And all the nations that forget God.

 

 

{25} 'And if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it.

 

 

{26} 'Nor shall you go up by steps to My altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed on it.'

 

I think this verse needs no explanation.

Where from here?

The verses that follow are tedious laws.  

We can cover them, but I have reservations.

Please let me know where to go from here.

 

Bible Study with Harley   My Sunday Evening Lessons