Can anybody tell the real and original 10 commandments. is there different commandments for different religions or tell me how many versions there are and who (as in religion) changed them.
2006-10-11 04:58:25 · 18 answers · asked by ? 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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
With love in Christ.
2006-10-12 17:49:52 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The 10 commandments, as written in Exodus 20:3-17 are the same today as originally received.
Some Bibles say the thought differently, but the thought is one and the same.
We must not get tripped-up over words ....it's the thought that counts.
The only change ever to occur (and it was found out and exposed) was with the Roman Catholic Church.
A few centuries back they tried to hide Exodus 20:4,5 where God gave a commandment against the use of idols.
We can understand the churches wish to play down this particular commandment since they are rife with the use of idols.
They took verse 12 and halved it (1 for mother, 1 for father) in order to keep the well-known number 10.
The scheme didn't last.
2006-10-11 05:18:46 · answer #2 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Even the biblical account has two versions one in exidus and one in deutoronomy. There is a subtle difference in one of the commandments (I think the first) but I am not sure. I don't think any other religion has changed them just translated them.
2006-10-11 06:27:29 · answer #3 · answered by anonomous 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two.
The first 10 were destroyed by Moses in a fit of rage when he descended the mountain and discovered his people worshipping a golden calf.
That act was the cause of the 40 years the Jewish people spend wandering in the wilderness, a punishment from God for their sin (breaking the 1st Commandment).
2006-10-11 05:03:45 · answer #4 · answered by lordofthetarot 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Among Jewish commentators, there are two ways to separate them.
Almost everyone:
1)I am G-d
2) No foreign gods
3)No wasting G-d's name
4)Sabbath
5) Honor Parents
6)No Murder
7) No Adultery
8)No Stealing (Kidnapping)
9) No false witnesses
10) No coveting
Abarbenel says that #1 isn't a command, so he breaks them up differently
1)No believing in foreign gods
2) No making idols/worshiping foreign gods
3)No wasting G-d's name...
2006-10-11 06:28:15 · answer #5 · answered by ysk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask at the local Synagogue. They may let you see the relevant section (in Exodus) from the Torah scroll. That has been copied carefully for well over 3000 years since the original was given at Sinai.
2006-10-11 06:35:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Different versions/ translations of the Bible are there to help you get a bigger picture of what the Bible is trying to tell you. none of them are wrong, they are writen in the language of the culture they are writen for,its much easier to understand if your bible speaks to you in a modern language that you hear every day. our language changes all the time, but the meaning of them stays the same.
People will always try to use the excuse of the different translations of the bible to stop you looking for the truth yourself.
Don't listern to religion,read the bible for youself and make up your mind from there.
2006-10-11 05:16:20 · answer #7 · answered by tallulaberry 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Exodus 20
2006-10-11 05:00:19 · answer #8 · answered by mesun1408 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The 10 commandments have never been changed.If you read
the Egyptian book of the dead, as they pass through trying to get to heaven, they are stopped at doors and asked ,did you murder
etc, same as 10 commandments.pre-dates the Bible. However
Jesus knows we all sin and He came to save us. Jesus said
"Behold I give you a new commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you" This we should try to follow.
2006-10-11 07:11:49 · answer #9 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ephesians 2:15 Through his body on the cross, Christ put an end to the law with all its commands and rules. He wanted to create one new group of people out of the two. He wanted to make peace between them.
Colossians 2:14 He wiped out the written Law with its rules. The Law was against us. It opposed us. He took it away and nailed it to the cross.
Galatians 2:16 We know that no one is made right with God by obeying the law. It is by believing in Jesus Christ. So we too have put our faith in Christ Jesus. That is so we can be made right with God by believing in Christ, not by obeying the law. No one can be made right with God by obeying the law.
Galatians 2:21 I do not get rid of the grace of God. What if a person could become right with God by obeying the law? Then Christ died for nothing!
Galatians 5:4 Some of you are trying to be made right with God by obeying the law. You have been separated from Christ. You have fallen away from God’s grace.
Matthew 5:17-18 Says Jesus didn't come to abolish the law but to fulfill it. It ALSO LOOKS FORWARD to the time when IT WOULD BE DESTROYED.
Matthew 5:17 “Do not think I have come to get rid of what is written in the Law or in the Prophets. I have not come to do that. Instead, I have come to give full meaning to what is written. 18 What I’m about to tell you is true. Heaven and earth will disappear before the smallest letter disappears from the Law. Not even the smallest stroke of a pen will disappear from the Law UNTIL EVERYTHING IS COMPLETED.
-- If the law were not to be set aside, the "until everything is completed" clause is meaningless.
2006-10-11 05:02:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋