The Ten Commandments (chap 20)


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The Ten Commandments are the distilled core of the Biblical moral code.

They cover the relationship between man and God, (1-4), Man and his parents, (5), and Man and society (6-10)

  • 1. Thou Shall Not Have another God in my place!
    • God identifies Himself as the God who delivered Israel from the Engyptian bondage.
  • 2. Though Shall make no image, no statue to represent God!
    • No celestial image, no earthly image, no deep water image. No bowing to statues, no warshipping them, because God is revengeful to his enemies, loving and compassionate to his lovers.
  • 3. Though Shall not invoke God's Name in vain!
    • God shall not forgive he who invokes his name in vain.
  • 4. Be Mindful to sanctify the Seventh day, the Shabbath!
    • Six days you shall work, performing all labor, but the seventh day is God's Shabbath, though shall not labor. Neither you, nor you son and daughter, you slave, you maid, your domestic animal, and any foreign guest on your premises. Because for six days God belabored on creating the heavens, the earth, the water, and all that is in them. And God took rest on the seventh day, and for that God has blessed the seventh day, and sanctify it.
  • 5. Do treat with respect your father, and your mother!
    • So that you live long life on the ground alloted to you by God.
  • 6. Though Shall not commit murder!
  • 7. Though Shall not engage is a disgusting act of sex
  • 8. Though Shall not Steal!
  • 9. Though Shall not bear false witness upon your friend!
  • 10 Though Shall not covet your friend's house, wife, slave, maid, his ox, and ass, and everything he owns!
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