When do one commandments stop and the next one start? Who's counting? Who got the number 10?
- I am Hashem
- your God
- You shalt have no other gods before me
- You shalt not make any graven image (So no 3D printing?)
- You shall not bow down to them
- or serve (them)
- You shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain
- Remember the sabbath day
- to keep it holy
- Six days you shall labor
- And do all your work
- but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God.
- On it you shall not do any work, you
- or your son
- or your daughter
- or your male servant
- or your female servant,
- or your ox
- or your donkey
- or any of your livestock,
- or the sojourner (non jews?) who is within your gates,
- that your male servant
- and your female servant may rest as well as you.
- You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt,
- and the LORD your God brought you out from there
- with a mighty hand
- and an outstretched arm.
- Honor thy father
- and thy mother (2 commandments)
- Thou shalt not kill (actually murder/certain types of killing presumably against other humans only. Many killing, is perfectly fine and encouraged. Just read http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/15-3.htm)
- Thou shalt not commit adultery (Most disagree on what it really means)
- Thou shalt not steal
- Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor (literally comrades)
- You shall not covet your neighbor's house
- you shall not covet your neighbor's wife,
- or his male servant,
- or his female servant,
- or his ox,
- or his donkey,
- or anything that is your neighbor's.
Some may think my division to 40 is excessive. Still if I shorten it, it'll still be way more than 10. Most denominations divide the commandments differently anyway, suggesting that the division is not clear cut.
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