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Ten Commandments in the Bible . We receive the Ten Commandments, sometimes called the Decalogue (“ten words” in Greek), in Exodus 20, when Moses ascended up Mt. Sinai to meet God, who “descended upon it in fire; and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.” (Exodus 19: 18)
The Ten Commandments were engraved on two tablets. The five commandments etched on the first tablet deal with man’s relationship with G‑d; the second tablet contains five commandments which concern man’s relationship with his fellow man. Of the 613 biblical commandments, G‑d selected these
The Ten Commandments - And God spoke all these words: “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a ...
The Ten Commandments. 20 And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3 “You shall have no other gods before[ a] me. 4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth ...
The sixth commandment is the one among all ten commandments that states that we shall not murder each other. Our lives have value and we are made in the image of God and our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19). However, note that murder is the intentional act of taking someone’s life.
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 1. I AM THE LORD THY GOD: THOU SHALT NOT HAVE STRANGE GODS BEFORE ME. COMMANDS: faith, hope, love, and worship of God; reverence for holy things; prayer. FORBIDS: idolatry; superstition; spiritism; tempting God; sacrilege; attendance at false worship. 2. THOU SHALL NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD IN VAIN.
The Ten Commandments Sometime around 1300 B.C., with the help of God, Moses led the Israelites out of enslavement in Egypt to begin a 40-year journey to their Promised Land. Three months after leaving Egypt, while they were camped at the foot of Mt. Sinai, God delivered the Ten Commandments to the Israelites as guidelines for living as a free ...
