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Deuteronomy 5:17

Deuteronomy 5:17
Thou shalt not kill.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness,.... The thick darkness, where God was, and with which the mountain was covered, Exo 20:21.

for the mountain did burn…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Deuteronomy 5:6-21

Compare Exo. 20 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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Deuteronomy 5:6-22

Here is the repetition of the ten commandments, in which observe, 1. Though they had been spoken before, and written, yet they are again rehearsed; for precept must be upon precept, and line upon…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Deuteronomy 5:17-20

The Sixth to the Ninth Commandments, as in Exo 20:13-16, except that for the simple notused there, we have here and not= neither, to introduce the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Commandments; and that in…

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