How many of the Ten commandments do you know by heart?

Question

Try to write as many of them as you know in order without opening your Bible or logging on to a web-site for the list.

Answer 1

Cool question.... I think it goes something like this

1) One God/No Gods before him
2) No idols
3) don't take name in vain
4) keep sabbath holy
5) honor father and mother
6) don't murder
7) don't commit adultery
8) don't steal
9) don't bear false witness
10) don't covet

Now I'll have to go and see if I got them right!

Answer 2

Hmm, depends if you want Exodus 20 version or Deuteronomy 5 (although I think they're basically the same).

First four deal with God:
1) I am YHVH Elohim. You shall have no other elohim before me.
2) You shall not make any graven image of anything in heaven or earth and bow down toward it.
3) You shall not take the name of YHVH Elohim in vain.
4) Remember the Shabbat to keep it holy.

Next 6 deal with humanity.
5) Honour thy father and mother
6) You shall not murder
7) You shall not commit adultery
8) You shall not steal
9) You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour
10) You shall not covet your neighbour's possesions.

Interestingly the Catholic/Protestant/Jewish numbering orders of these commandments are all different.

Answer 3

1. Hear O Israel the Lord is ONE!
2. Do not create graven images.
3. Do not take the name of the Lord in vain.
4. Establish the Sabbath.
5. Honor your parents

6. You shall not kill
7. You shall not commit adultery
8. You shall not steal
9. You shall not covet your neighbors property
10. You shall not bear false witness.

The first five were on the first tablet, and pertain to God Amighty and then our personal gods our parents who created and took care of us when we were helpless. Who connect us to society.

Thus the next five commands pertain to society as a whole. All the Laws enumerated by Moses pertained to the laws of Justice. Jesus came with the laws of Mercy, the next step up from the level of Justice.

Had Jesus not been rejected and his message not distorted by Paul (assisted by Peter), then our Prophet would not be needed as the religion was completed with the announcement of Mercy by Jesus, the Messiah!!

Answer 4

Thou shall not:
1. Kill
2. Steal
3. Covet thy neighbor's wife
4. Use the Lord's name in vain
5. Commit adultery
6. Worship idols/images
7. Bear false witness
8. Put any God before him
Thou shall:
9. Honor thy father and mother
10. Keep the Sabbath holy

Answer 5

Nope yet wikipedia is in basic terms a click away or my Bible that's at my hand now. I concentration on the affection God and Love thy Neighbor first and with those, the others fall into line so i do no longer ought to be afflicted approximately memorizing a "checklist". It additionally keeps me faraway from the seize of residing a existence targeted in basic terms on a catalogue of "do's" or "do no longer's". i'm Christian, no longer Jewish (no offense meant), for a reason.

Answer 6

1. Thou shalt have not other God's before me.
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of anything that is in the heaven above or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them nor serve them. For I the Lord they God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the Father unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and showing mercy unto them that love me an keep my commandments.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt not do any work, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor they man servant, nor they maidservant, nor thy cattle, not thy stranger that is within thy gates. For the Lord made heaven and earth and rested the Sabbath day and hollowed it.
5. Honor thy Father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
6. Thou shalt not kill
7. Thou shalt not commit adultry
8. Thou shat not steal
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.
(oops brain fog, can't remember all of the last one)

Great challenge. I memorized all the commandments as a child. It was interesting and unbelievable that I could remember so much. I did have to rack my brain for a few minutes on some of them. I do remember my husband having the Bible open to the commandments about a month and he challenged me to recite them. He was surprized how much I remembered.

Answer 7

1. You should have no other god's before God
2.
3. Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy
4. Make no graven images
5. Honor your Father and Mother
6. Thou shall not kill
7. Thou shall not steal
8. Thou shall not covet
9. Thou shall not bear false witness
10. Thou shall not commit adultery

This is all I remember off the top of my head, and it may not be in order except for the honoring your parents one.

Answer 8

The first commandment, “You must not have any other gods against my face,” put Jehovah first. (Ex 20:3) It involved his lofty office and unique position as God Almighty, the Most High, the Supreme Sovereign. This commandment indicated that the Israelites were not to have any other gods as rivals to Jehovah.

The second commandment was a natural follow-up of the first in that it forbade idolatry in any shape or form as an open affront to Jehovah’s glory and Personage. ‘You must not make a carved image or a form like anything in the heavens, on the earth, or in the waters under the earth, nor are you to bow down to or serve them.’ This prohibition is underscored with the declaration: “Because I Jehovah your God am a God exacting exclusive devotion.”—Ex 20:4-6.

The third commandment, in its proper and logical sequence, declared: “You must not take up the name of Jehovah your God in a worthless way.” (Ex 20:7) This harmonizes with the prominence attached to Jehovah’s name throughout the Hebrew Scriptures (6,973 times in NW; see JEHOVAH [Importance of the Name]). Within just these few verses of the Ten Words (Ex 20:2-17), the name occurs eight times. The phrase “not take up” has the thought of “not pronounce” or “not lift up (carry).” To do this to God’s name in “a worthless way” would be to lift up that name to a falsehood, or “in vain.” The Israelites who were privileged to bear Jehovah’s name as his witnesses and who became apostate were in effect taking up and carrying about Jehovah’s name in a worthless way.—Isa 43:10; Eze 36:20, 21.

The fourth commandment stated: “Remembering the sabbath day to hold it sacred, you are to render service and you must do all your work six days. But the seventh day is a sabbath to Jehovah your God. You must not do any work, you nor your son nor your daughter, your slave man nor your slave girl nor your domestic animal nor your alien resident who is inside your gates.” (Ex 20:8-10) By their holding this day as holy to Jehovah, all, even the slaves and the domestic animals, would have the benefit of refreshing rest. The Sabbath day also provided opportunity to concentrate on spiritual matters without distraction.

The fifth commandment, “Honor your father and your mother,” may be viewed as linking together the first four, which define man’s duties toward God, and the remaining commandments, which set forth man’s obligations toward fellow creatures. For since parents serve as God’s representatives, by keeping the fifth command one is honoring and obeying both the Creator and those creatures upon whom God has conferred authority. This command was the only one of the ten with a promise attached: “in order that your days may prove long upon the ground that Jehovah your God is giving you.”—Ex 20:12; De 5:16; Eph 6:2, 3.

The next commandments in the code were stated very tersely: the sixth, “You must not murder”; the seventh, “You must not commit adultery”; the eighth, “You must not steal.” (Ex 20:13-15) This is the way these laws are listed in the Masoretic text—from laws dealing with crimes causing the greatest harm to one’s neighbor to the one causing the least, in that order. In some Greek manuscripts (Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Ambrosianus) the order is ‘murder, theft, adultery’; Philo (The Decalogue, XII, 51) has “adultery, murder, theft”; the Codex Vaticanus, ‘adultery, theft, murder.’ Going next from deeds to words, the ninth says: “You must not testify falsely as a witness against your fellowman.”—Ex 20:16.

The tenth commandment (Ex 20:17) was unique in that it forbade covetousness, that is, wrong desire for the property and possessions, including the wife, belonging to a fellowman. No human lawmakers originated such a law, for, indeed, there would be no way humanly possible of enforcing it. Jehovah, on the other hand, by this tenth commandment made each one directly accountable to Him as the one who sees and knows all the secret thoughts of a person’s heart.—1Sa 16:7; Pr 21:2; Jer 17:10.

Answer 9

The 10 Commandments came from the Ancient Egytians when Moses lived there.

Answer 10

4 or 5, why is everybody shouting I can't think