Can someone tell me the Catholics 10 Commandants?

Question

My friend said the Ten Commandants in a Catholic religion is different from the bible. I just want to know if its true or not?

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

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

The text of the Ten Commandments is pretty much the same in the Douay (Roman Catholic) and King James (Anglican Catholic) bibles and all those which followed. But the numbering of the commandments is different.

Bear in mind that the numbering of all biblical texts and the organizing of the text into chapters and verses has nothing to do with the originals. Also bear in mind that the Judaic-Christian Ten Commandments are not at all original ideas. Aside from the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi there is the much more ancient Negative Confession in the Papyrus of the Scribe Nepseni, which contains the essence of what we today call the Ten Commandments, in the Egyptian Book of the Dead.

To read the Roman Catholic version of the Decalogue just google on the Roman Catholic Catechism.

Answer 3

As Hippies wrote, they're pretty much the same, but just grouped differently. The prohibition against graven images is de-emphasized (for the obvious reason, i think!) and merged with the first commandment in a general ban on idol worship. To make up the difference, the tenth commandment is split between a man's wife and the rest of his property.

The Catholic grouping makes more sense when read from Deuteronomy 5, rather than Exodus 20. It' not a different Bible; just a different part of the Torah.

This is an important issue you brought up, Eric, because if Roy Moore, Chuck Norris, and their crew succeed in installing their 10 Commandments into public schools and other government venues, 70 million Catholic Americans are in for a rude shock. Another excellent reason to keep religion completely out of government.

Answer 4

Your friend has it wrong. The Ten Commandments are the same for all Christians - Catholic and Protestant. Do not let someone tell you that Catholics have different commandments because we don't. We follow the exact commandments that are in the bible.

God bless.

Answer 5

I never heard of catholic 10 commandments i think they are the same as the regular 10 commandments.

Answer 6

Did you know that there were originally 15 commandments, but when Moses was carrying the tablets down from the mountain he dropped a tablet and never told anyone, so that's why we only have 10 today.

Answer 7

It is not, Catholics have the same ten Commandments.

Answer 8

That is false. My 10 Commandments are the same as any other Christians.

Your friend was incorrect.

Unless the Pope decreed something that I haven't heard about yet...

Answer 9

It is true, Catholics have a different ten commandments from other Christians.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_commandments#Division_of_the_commandments

--Well they are pretty much the same, just grouped differently. I mean, the come from the same text.

Answer 10

Go to your nearest Catholic church, and ask the priest this problem, he will tell you the truth, don't believe in nonsenses.