OLD TESTAMENT

Deuteronomy 5:22

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The LORD spoke these words to all your assembly on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice. He added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets, and gave them to me.

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Verse 22. More to the people: the other precepts were communicated to Moses. The Chaldee and others give a contrary turn to the Hebrew “and he ceased not” ever since to instruct us. Calmet.—Moses gives the sense, not the very words of the decalogue, in which he is not guilty of any lie. Saint Augustine q. 8. D.

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