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## Deuteronomy 5:16-21 in Context (Verses 13–24 KJV)
 
 [13 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/5/13) Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:
 
 [14 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/5/14) But the seventh day *is* the sabbath of the LORD thy God: *in it* thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that *is* within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/5/15) And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and *that* the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/5/16) ¶ Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/5/17) Thou shalt not kill.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/5/18) Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/5/19) Neither shalt thou steal.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/5/20) Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
 
 [21 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/5/21) Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any *thing* that *is* thy neighbour’s.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/5/22) ¶ These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
 
 [23 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/5/23) And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, *even* all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
 
 [24 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/5/24) And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth.
 
[Deuteronomy 4](/kjv/deuteronomy/4) [Deuteronomy 6](/kjv/deuteronomy/6)

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