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class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/deuteronomy/5.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />“You must not commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/deuteronomy/5.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />“‘And you shall not commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/deuteronomy/5.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />You shall not commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/deuteronomy/5.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Neither shalt thou commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/deuteronomy/5.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />‘You shall not commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/deuteronomy/5.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />‘You shall not commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/deuteronomy/5.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8216You shall not commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/deuteronomy/5.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />‘You shall not commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/deuteronomy/5.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />‘You shall not commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/deuteronomy/5.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />‘You shall not commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/deuteronomy/5.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Do not commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/deuteronomy/5.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Do not commit adultery. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/deuteronomy/5.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Neither shalt thou commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/deuteronomy/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Be faithful in marriage. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/deuteronomy/5.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Neither shalt thou commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/deuteronomy/5.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />"Never commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/deuteronomy/5.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />"'Do not commit adultery. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/deuteronomy/5.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"'You are not to commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/deuteronomy/5.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />You shall not commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/deuteronomy/5.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />You must not commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/deuteronomy/5.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />"Do not murder.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/deuteronomy/5.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Neither shalt thou commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/deuteronomy/5.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />“You shall not commit adultery. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/deuteronomy/5.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />You do not commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/deuteronomy/5.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> 'Thou dost not commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/deuteronomy/5.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />and thou shalt not commit adultery,<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/deuteronomy/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Neither shalt thou commit adultery. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/deuteronomy/5.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And you shall not commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/deuteronomy/5.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />You shall not commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/deuteronomy/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Neither shall you commit adultery.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/deuteronomy/5.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />You shall not commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/deuteronomy/5.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />You shall not commit adultery.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/deuteronomy/5.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/deuteronomy/5.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Thou shalt not commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/deuteronomy/5-18.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IRhBtZaVxJ0?start=1783" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/deuteronomy/5.htm">The Ten Commandments</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">17</span>You shall not murder. <span class="reftext">18</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: wə·lō (Conj-w:: Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">You shall not</a> <a href="/hebrew/5003.htm" title="5003: tin·ʾå̄p̄ (V-Qal-Imperf-2ms) -- To commit adultery. A primitive root; to commit adultery; figuratively, to apostatize.">commit adultery.</a> </span><span class="reftext">19</span>You shall not steal.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/20-14.htm">Exodus 20:14</a></span><br />You shall not commit adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/5-27.htm">Matthew 5:27-28</a></span><br />You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ / But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/20-10.htm">Leviticus 20:10</a></span><br />If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/6-32.htm">Proverbs 6:32</a></span><br />He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/13-4.htm">Hebrews 13:4</a></span><br />Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/6-9.htm">1 Corinthians 6:9-10</a></span><br />Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, / nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/13-9.htm">Romans 13:9</a></span><br />The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/2-11.htm">James 2:11</a></span><br />For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/10-11.htm">Mark 10:11-12</a></span><br />So He told them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. / And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/16-18.htm">Luke 16:18</a></span><br />Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-3.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:3-5</a></span><br />For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; / each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, / not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/31-1.htm">Job 31:1</a></span><br />“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/7-5.htm">Proverbs 7:5-27</a></span><br />that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words. / For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice. / I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment, ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/3-5.htm">Malachi 3:5</a></span><br />“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/5-19.htm">Galatians 5:19-21</a></span><br />The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; / idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, / and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Neither shall you commit adultery.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/20-14.htm">Exodus 20:14</a></b></br> Thou shalt not commit adultery.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/6-32.htm">Proverbs 6:32,33</a></b></br> <i>But</i> whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he <i>that</i> doeth it destroyeth his own soul… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/matthew/5-27.htm">Matthew 5:27,28</a></b></br> Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: … </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/leviticus/20-10.htm">Adultery</a> <a href="/numbers/31-16.htm">Commit</a> <a href="/numbers/36-11.htm">Married</a> <a href="/numbers/30-16.htm">Relation</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/psalms/51-1.htm">Adultery</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/19-20.htm">Commit</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/20-7.htm">Married</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/25-2.htm">Relation</a><div class="vheading2">Deuteronomy 5</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/5-1.htm">The covenant in Horeb</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/5-6.htm">The ten commandments</a></span><br><span class="reftext">23. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/5-23.htm">At the people's request Moses receives the law from God</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading"><a href="/study/deuteronomy/5.htm">Berean Study Bible</a></div><b>You shall not</b><br />This phrase is a direct command from God, emphasizing the imperative nature of the instruction. In Hebrew, the phrase is "לֹא תִנְאָף" (lo tin'af), where "לֹא" (lo) is a strong negative particle meaning "not," and "תִנְאָף" (tin'af) is the verb form meaning "commit adultery." The use of "shall not" indicates a clear prohibition, reflecting the moral absolutes that God establishes for His people. This command is part of the Decalogue, or Ten Commandments, which are foundational to the covenant relationship between God and Israel. The imperative form underscores the seriousness with which God views the sanctity of marriage and the faithfulness required within it.<p><b>commit adultery</b><br />The Hebrew word for "commit adultery" is "נָאַף" (na'af), which specifically refers to a sexual relationship where at least one of the parties is married to someone else. In the ancient Near Eastern context, adultery was not only a personal sin but also a social and communal offense that could disrupt family structures and inheritance rights. The command against adultery is rooted in the creation narrative, where marriage is established as a covenantal union between one man and one woman (<a href="/genesis/2-24.htm">Genesis 2:24</a>). Adultery violates this sacred bond and is seen as an affront to God's design for human relationships. Historically, the prohibition against adultery served to protect the family unit, which was the cornerstone of Israelite society. In a broader scriptural context, adultery is often used metaphorically to describe Israel's unfaithfulness to God, highlighting the spiritual implications of this command. The call to fidelity in marriage reflects the faithfulness that God desires in His relationship with His people, serving as a reminder of the covenantal love and commitment that should characterize both human and divine relationships.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/deuteronomy/5-18.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">You shall not</span><br /><span class="heb">וְלֹ֖֣א</span> <span class="translit">(wə·lō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">commit adultery.</span><br /><span class="heb">תִּֿנְאָֽ֑ף׃</span> <span class="translit">(tnə·’āp̄)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5003.htm">Strong's 5003: </a> </span><span class="str2">To commit adultery, to apostatize</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/deuteronomy/5-18.htm">Deuteronomy 5:18 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/deuteronomy/5-18.htm">Deuteronomy 5:18 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/deuteronomy/5-18.htm">Deuteronomy 5:18 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/deuteronomy/5-18.htm">Deuteronomy 5:18 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/deuteronomy/5-18.htm">Deuteronomy 5:18 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/deuteronomy/5-18.htm">Deuteronomy 5:18 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/deuteronomy/5-18.htm">Deuteronomy 5:18 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/deuteronomy/5-18.htm">Deuteronomy 5:18 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/deuteronomy/5-18.htm">Deuteronomy 5:18 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/deuteronomy/5-18.htm">Deuteronomy 5:18 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/deuteronomy/5-18.htm">OT Law: Deuteronomy 5:18 Neither shall you commit adultery (Deut. 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