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1 |
I am God your Lord, who brought you out of |
2 |
Do not have any other gods before Me. |
3 |
Do not take the name
of God your Lord in
vain. |
4 |
Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy. |
5 |
Honor your father and
mother. |
6 |
Do not commit murder. |
7 |
Do not commit adultery.
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8 |
Do not steal. |
9 |
Do not testify as a false witness against your neighbor. |
10 |
Do not be envious of your neighbor's wife, his slave, his maid, his ox, his donkey, or anything else that is your neighbor's. |
Notes:
· Commandment 1 is not a commandment at all; it’s a statement.
· Commandment 6 says ‘murder’ not ‘kill’. This is an important distinction and has been mis-translated by some Christian bibles.
· Dennis Prager has a great lecture on the Ten Commandments available from his website.