THE REAL TEN COMMANDMENTS FROM EXODUS 20:3-17
Notice that the commandments break into two sections, a section for each
tablet. The first FOUR are of our realtionship to God. The last SIX
are our relationship with mankind.
I. Thou shalt have no other Gods V. Honour thy father and thy
before me. mother: that thy days may
be long upon the land which
II. Thou shalt not make unto thee the Lord Thy God giveth thee.
any graven image, or any
likeness of any thing that is VI. Thou shalt not kill.
in heaven above, or that is in
the Earth beneath, or that is VII. Thou shalt not commit
in the water under the Earth: adultery.
Thou shalt not bow down thyself
to them, nor serve them: For I VIII. Thou shalt not steal.
The Lord Thy God am a jealous
God, visiting the iniquity of IX. Thou shalt not bear false
the fathers upon the children witness against thy
unto the third and fourth neighbour.
generation of them that hate me;
and showing mercy unto thousands X. Thou shalt not covet thy
of them that love me, and keep neighbour's house; thou
my commandments. shalt not covet thy
neighbour's wife, nor his
III. Thou shalt not take the name of manservant, nor his
the Lord thy God in vain; for maidservant, nor his ox,
the Lord will not hold him nor his ass, nor anything
guiltless that taketh his name that is thy neighbour's.
in vain.
IV. Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep
it holy. Six days shalt thou labour
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, thou nor thy son, nor thy
daughter, thy manservant, nor thy
maidservant, not thy cattle, nor
thy stranger within thy gates: for
in six days the Lord made heaven
and earth, the sea and all that in
them is, and reseted the seventh
day: wherefore the Lord blessed the
Sabbath day, and halloed it.