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Deuteronomy 5:2

The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

KJV

Dominus Deus noster pepigit nobiscum fœdus in Horeb.

Vulgate

Κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὑμῶν διέθετο πρὸς ὑμᾶς διαθήκην ἐν Χωρήβ.

LXX

Jehovah our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

ASV

יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֗י/נוּ כָּרַ֥ת עִמָּ֛/נוּ בְּרִ֖ית בְּ/חֹרֵֽב

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

הִכְרַתִּ֥י
hkrty
verb · 283×
חֹרֵ֑ב
chrb
proper_noun · 15×
י
y
noun · 280×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
עִם
'm
preposition · 1043×

Covenant

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§2060The gift of the commandments and of the Law is part of the covenant God sealed with his own. In Exodus, the revelation of the "ten words" is granted between the proposal of the covenant 22 and its conclusion - after the people had committed themselves to "do" all that the Lord had said, and to "obey" it.23 The Decalogue is never handed on without first recalling the covenant (“…
Perfect righteousness was conferred neither by circumcision nor by any other legal ceremonies. The Decalogue, however, was not cancelled by Christ, but is always in force: men were never released from its commandments. 1. Moreover, we learn from the Scripture itself, that God gave circumcision, not as the completer of righteousness, but as a sign, that the race of Abraham might…

Cross-references

  • Deut 1:6 — The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:
  • Deut 4:10 — Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all
  • Deut 4:23 — Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden th
  • Deut 26:17 — Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
  • Deut 29:1 — These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
  • Exod 19:5 — Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
  • Exod 19:5 — Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
  • Exod 24:8 — And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
  • Exod 34:10 — And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the w
  • Heb 8:6 — But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
  • Heb 8:9 — Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded th
  • Heb 9:19 — For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all
  • Jer 34:13 — Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,