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Deuteronomy 5

The Visual and Auditory Presentation of God on Mount Sinai

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  • Sunny Wang

Accounts of theophany are recorded in Exodus 19-Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 4-Deuteronomy 5. This study argues that the senses of sight and hearing are used together to attain knowledge of God and that this interrelation between seeing and hearing is intended.

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“You Shall Not Covet Your Neighbour's Wife”: A Study in Deuteronomic Domestic Ideology

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  • Daniel I. Block

The Old Testament views leadership in general as a privilege granted to an individual in order to serve the interests of those who are led. This view of leadership is reflected in particular in Deuteronomy's version of the Decalogue. This article offers a comparison of Deuteronomy 5's versions of the Decalogue with Exodus 20.

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Deuteronomy 6-8 and the History of Interpretation: An Exposition on the First Two Commandments

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  • Justin M. Fuhrmann

Deuteronomy 6-Deuteronomy 8 occupy an important place within the book of Deuteronomy and in the Jewish and Christian tradition. This essay seeks to understand the context of these chapters. It first surveys its history of interpretation and offers an evaluation. The thesis and proposal of the article is that the Decalogue (Deuteronomy 5:6-21) and the covenant ratification ceremony at Sinai (Exodus 24) offer a plausible context.

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The Commandment We Forgot

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  • Tim Challies

In Deuteronomy 5:16 God commands you to honor your father and your mother. Is this the neglected commandment today? What does it mean to obey this command as adults? This article explains the reasons to obey the fifth commandment.

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The Commandment We Forgot: Honoring the Dishonorable

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  • Tim Challies

The fifth commandment in Deuteronomy 5:16 requires children to honour parents. Does it also require children to honour parents who act in a dishonorable way? There are five distinctions that must be made to answer this question. This article explains them.

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Honor Your Mother: Live Long and Prosper

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  • William Boekestein

This article looks at the fifth commandment, showing what it means to honour your mother. Looking at Deuteronomy 5:16, the author discusses the meaning, basis, and expression of honour.

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What is the Lord's Day?

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  • George P. van Popta

In this article on the Lord's Day, the author first gives attention to the Biblical background of this day in the Old and New Testament.

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Does God "Visit the Sins of the Fathers on the Children"?

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  • John Piper

God's visitation of the fathers' sins on the children is never a simple punishment of innocent children for what the fathers did. The children are always guilty themselves of a sinful and rebellious life as the fathers' sins bear fruit in the lives of their children. (Exodus 20:5-6; Deuteronomy 5:9-10)

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