what are the ten commandments?

Question

please list them in order according to your religion. then try to explain what each means to you. it will be interesting to note the many differences. also please specify where you found them, what scripture etc. there are many versions, each from different places and some just changed for convenience (EX:catholics delete the rule against graven images/ idols).
it seems wrong to tinker with gods word but many do.

first 4
1 I am only god
2 no graven images/idols
3 do not take my name in vain
4 set aside a special day for worship
( of me)
that is the first four all about God God God God. ( me me me me)

Answer 1

There are actually three versions of the Ten Commandments, Jewish, Catholic (and Lutheran), and Protestant taken from Exodus Chapter 20:1-17 and Deuteronomy Chapter 5:6-21.

With the new revelations of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit in the early Catholic Church, a slightly different emphasis was placed on different commandments.

Then 1500 years later, the Protestant in objecting to certain Catholic practices, once again changed the emphasis of the Ten Commandments.

+ Jewish Ten Commandments (before 1000 BC)

1. I am the Lord your G-d who has taken you out of the land of Egypt.
2. You shall have no other gods but me.
3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your G-d in vain.
4. You shall remember the Sabbath and keep it Holy.
5. Honor you mother and father.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not bear false witness.
10. You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.

Source: http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Scripture/Torah/Ten_Cmds/ten_cmds.html

+ Catholic (and Lutheran) Ten Commandments (about 100 AD)

1. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them.
2. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain
3. 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; in it, you shall not do any work.
4. Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
5. You shall not kill.
6. You shall not commit adultery.
7. You shall not steal.
8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
9. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.
10. You shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ***, or anything that is your neighbor's.

Source: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt3sect2chpt1ind.htm

+ Protestant Ten Commandments (about 1600 AD)

1. You shall have no other gods but me.
2. You shall not make unto you any graven images
3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain
4. You shall remember the Sabbath and keep it holy
5. Honor your mother and father
6. You shall not murder
7. You shall not commit adultery
8. You shall not steal
9. You shall not bear false witness
10. You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor

Source: http://www.biblicalheritage.org/Bible%20Studies/10%20Commandments.htm

Explanations would take volumes.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Your wording of your question is very provocative and a little hostile. But you do raise a valid point. I am grateful to the Biblical scholars for their answers. But essentially they agree with you. There are numerous different interpretations and numberings.

All modern versions are selective quotations making the commandments sound universal. But if you read the passages in their entirety they were clearly written for a particular people at a particular time. Once you start leaving things out where do you stop?

We no longer hear of God boasting to be a jealous God, who will not only punish you, but your grandchildren and your great grandchildren. The Old Testament God is no longer fashionable or credible.

Some of the commandments have also been watered down considerably. Exodus 31:15 says "Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death." Wouldn't be many modern Christians left alive on that test! And Exodus 21:15 says "And he who strikes his mother or father shall surely be put to death."

It is also misleading to call these the Ten Commandments. They are just the first ten. The rules continue on through Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy. The very next chapter of Exodus legitimizes slavery, and many of the rules are inhumane. They make it a bad thing to beat your servant to death, but if it takes them a couple of days to die that's OK, "for he is his property." Exodus 21:21.

There are hundreds of rule for animal sacrifices. Why don't the fundamentalists revive these practices? If you believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible, you have to follow the whole thing.

It's all very well to say Jesus got rid of all that old Jewish stuff, but he didn't specify which passages to keep. Over the years the Christian churches voted to emphasize certain parts and ignore others, tinkering with God's word as you say. And the process is still going on. All religions continue to change and adapt, which is fine except if you are a fundamentalist.

According to Exodus, Moses wrote down everything God said, and it was all set out on two tablets of stone. The Hebrews however had no written language until the time of David and Solomon. So even if God taught Moses to write, it would have been of no benefit to the rest of the population. They were illiterate.

Answer 3

Majority of Christians (the main exception being Catholicism, as you have noted already) take the Ten Commandments from Exodus 20: 1-17 and / or Deuteronomy 5: 6-21...

Most will list them as they are:

1. You shall have no other gods before me.
2. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything... You shall not bow down to them or worship them...
3. You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God...
4. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy...
5. Honor your father and your mother...
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
10. You shall not covet...

Catholicism excludes the second one and, in its place, expands the tenth one into 9. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, and 10. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods...

Do note that nowhere in the scripture does it indicate the number of commandments, but that it refers to them just as the commandments. It is not the number of them that are important, for all of them are important...

Answer 4

When I was in Sunday school as a kid we learned a song for the Ten Commandments (yes, I'm running the lyrics through my head as I type this):

I am the LORD your God; you shall have no other gods before me (reiteration of the Abramic covenant).
Don't worship any false gods.
If you're going to use the LORD's name, use it with respect.
Keep the sabbath day holy.
Honor your parents.
Don't kill.
Don't commit adultery.
Don't steal.
Don't lie.
Don't get jealous of your neighbor's stuff or lust after his wife.

These are, of course, paraphrased so as to indicate my understanding of each. Some, of course, are much more straightforward than others.

Answer 5

Romans 13:9,10; From Exo.20:13-17;
Matt.22:37-40 [ the first and great commandment, and the second, and on these two, hang all the law and the prophets.

Answer 6

You shall have no other Gods before me.

You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name 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 the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

You shall not murder.

You shall not commit adultery.

You shall not steal.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s."

those are the 10 commandments observed by Christians.....i could care less about any other religion's commandments

Answer 7

They are not in a different place for each religion. Exodus 20

Answer 8

So many people say that the 6th Commandment is you shall not murder ...

when the actual writing is
"Thou Shall not Kill"

since when is kill become equal to Murder?
Another proof of Change of Bible for Convenience...

Answer 9

What do you really want? If you want to know the law, go read for yourself. Why do you bother to make up such stupid questions? You are not doing anyone any good with the tripe you post here.
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Answer 10

http://www.askmoses.com/article.html?h=609&o=184 this according to my beliefes for the most part. hope this enlightens u.
honey child sweetheart darling... g-d aint jealous of nobody... its ZEALOUS ,(zeal) look it up in a dictionary.