The Real Ten Commandments Are Not What You Think

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

The passages we erroneously call the "Ten Commandments" are listed twice in the Bible, at Exodus 20:1-17 and at Deuteronomy 5:6-21.

Exodus 20:1-17 Deuteronomy 5:6-21

And God spoke all these words: And he [God] said:

1. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 1. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

2. You shall have no other gods before me. 2. You shall have no other gods before me.

3. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 3. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

4. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand [generations] of those who love me and keep my commandments. 4. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand [generations] of those who love me and keep my commandments.

5. You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. 5. You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.

6. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 6. Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.

7. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 7. Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

8. but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. 8. but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor the alien within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest, as you do.

9. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. 9. Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

10. Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you. 10. Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

11. You shall not murder. 11. You shall not murder.

12. You shall not commit adultery. 12. You shall not commit adultery.

13. You shall not steal. 13. You shall not steal.

14. You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. 14. You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

15. You shall not covet your neighbor's house. 15. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.

16. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, 16. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor's house or land,

17. or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. 17. his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

Notice that the two readings are not identical. They actually consist of 17 statements, and there are no instructions in the Bible on how we are to combine and group these 17 statements so we end up with ten commandments. This presents us with an immediate problem -- which reading do we use, the one in Exodus or the one in Deuteronomy, and how do we combine and group the 17 statements so we arrive at 10 commandments? The answer is no one agrees. The Catholics, the Protestants, and the Jews all have their own way of combining and grouping the 17 statements, each arriving at their own distinctly different version of the Ten Commandments.

Jewish Protestant Catholic

And God spoke all these words: And God spoke all these words: And God spoke all these words:

1st Commandment

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

2nd Commandment 1st Commandment 1st Commandment

You shall have no other gods before me. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall have no other gods before me.

2nd Commandment

You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

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You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand [generations] of those who love me and keep my commandments. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand [generations] of those who love me and keep my commandments. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand [generations] of those who love me and keep my commandments.

3rd Commandment 3rd Commandment 2nd Commandment

You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.

4th Commandment 4th Commandment 3rd Commandment

Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.

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Six days you shall labor and do all your work, Six days you shall labor and do all your work, Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

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but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates.

For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

5th Commandment 5th Commandment 4th Commandment

Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you. Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you. Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

6th Commandment 6th Commandment 5th Commandment

You shall not murder. You shall not murder. You shall not murder.

7th Commandment 7th Commandment 6th Commandment

You shall not commit adultery. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not commit adultery.

8th Commandment 8th Commandment 7th Commandment

You shall not steal. You shall not steal. You shall not steal.

9th Commandment 9th Commandment 8th Commandment

You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

10th Commandment 10th Commandment 9th Commandment

You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.

10th Commandment

You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, You shall not covet your neighbor's land,

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or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

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Which of These are the Ten Commandments?

We are now presented with a problem if we want to post "The Ten Commandments" on a public wall somewhere. Which version do we use? Do we use the Jewish version, the Protestant version, or the Catholic version? No matter which version of the ten commandments above we choose we will insult the other two major religions by implying their version of the ten commandments is numbered incorrectly. Do you really want to post the Protestant version of the ten commandments and imply that both the Catholics and the Jews are wrong? There is no consensus on how the list should be enumerated. However, our problems are actually much more serious than this, for these are not the Ten Commandments.

I said at the beginning that we erroneously call the above the "Ten Commandments", whichever version we choose. This is because the Bible never explicitly says one or the other or both of the two passages above are the Ten Commandments. In fact what the Bible does explicitly call the Ten Commandments are nothing like the 17 statements above which we are familiar with.

THE STONE TABLETS IN THE BOOK OF EXODUS

The Bible never explicitly says the Exodus version of the Ten Commandments above was written on stone tablets. The scriptures simply start out with, "And God spoke all these words." These 17 statements were spoken verbally by God directly to the people. Afterwards the people expressed great fear about having God speak directly to them, and they said to Moses, "Speak to us yourself and we will listen. But do not have God speak to us or we will die." (Exodus 20:19).

After this incident the Lord talks to Moses privately and goes on for three chapters detailing a multitude of laws about how the Hebrews are to conduct themselves (Exodus chapters 21,22,23). Finally the Lord says to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commands I have written for their instruction." (Exodus 24:12). There are no details explaining exactly what the Lord writes on these stone tablets. It would be logical if the Lord wrote the entire law on the stone tablets, starting with the commandments he verbally told the people, followed by everything in chapters 21, 22, and 23. Laws need to be written down so that they may be referred to later on. If the laws are not written down then we are left at the mercy of whoever claims to know what the laws are.

These stone tablets don't last very long. Moses breaks these stone tablets in a fit of rage the moment he comes down from the mountain (Exodus 32:19) before anyone else has a chance to read them.

So then the Lord says to Moses, "Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke." (Exodus 34:1). Note that nothing is said about the Lord needing any help in creating the first set of stone tablets, but for making a duplicate copy the Lord this time asks Moses to bring him a replacement set.

Moses goes up the mountain with the replacement set of tablets, and the Lord says to Moses, "I am making a covenant with you," after which the Lord recites the list of commandments that form the covenant. However, these commandments which the Lord gives are nothing like the ten commandments we are familiar with (Exodus 34:10-26). After reciting the commandments to Moses the Lord says to Moses, "Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel" (Exodus 34:27). Note that even though the Lord originally said, "I will write on them [the replacement tablets] the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke," the Lord now tells Moses to do the writing, and what he tells Moses to write on the tablets are the words of the covenant.

Here now, quoting from the Bible, is the covenant the Lord makes with Moses:

Exodus 34:10-26

Then the LORD said:

1. I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the LORD, will do for you. Obey what I command you today.

2. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

3. Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you.

4. Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles [That is, symbols of the goddess Asherah].

5. Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

6. Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices.

7. And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will lead your sons to do the same.

8. Do not make cast idols.

9. Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt.

10. The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock.

11. Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck.

12. Redeem all your firstborn sons. No one is to appear before me empty-handed.

13. Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.

14. Celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year [That is, in the fall].

15. Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD, the God of Israel.

16. I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the LORD your God.

17. Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.

18. Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God.

19. Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

Exodus 34:10-26
Then the LORD said:
1. I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the LORD, will do for you. Obey what I command you today.
2. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
3. Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you.
4. Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles [That is, symbols of the goddess Asherah].
5. Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
6. Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices.
7. And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will lead your sons to do the same.
8. Do not make cast idols.
9. Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt.
10. The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock.
11. Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck.
12. Redeem all your firstborn sons. No one is to appear before me empty-handed.
13. Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.
14. Celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year [That is, in the fall].
15. Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD, the God of Israel.
16. I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the LORD your God.
17. Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.
18. Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God.
19. Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

The reading immediately concludes with Exodus 34:27-28 which I quote, "Then the LORD said to Moses, 'Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.' Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant--the Ten Commandments."

According to Exodus these are the real Ten Commandments of the Bible.

THE STONE TABLETS IN THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY

All are familiar with the celebrated "finding" by the late lamented Joseph Smith -- led thereto by the Angel Moroni -- of the wonderful golden plates containing the text of the famous Book of Mormon, in nineteenth century United States. History repeated itself. In 2 Kings xxii, is the relation of an equally notorious discovery. In the eighteenth year of the "good King" of Judah, Josia, while some repairs were being made in the Temple, Hilkiah, the Priest of a sudden "found the Book of the Law of Yahveh given by Moses," and by him ordered to be preserved in the Ark of the Covenant" (Deuteronomy 31:24-26). Hilkiah announced his "discovery" to Shaphan the Scribe, and they took the great "find" to Josiah the King. This remarkable "discovery" was made in the year 623 B.C., or 828 years after the death of Moses. For 828 years nobody had ever heard of this "Book of the Law", nor is it once mentioned in Hebrew Holy Writ. Not surprisingly, everything found in this second (deutero) giving of the Law (nomas) confirmed all the views of the prophets who just happened to be in the midst of a major reformation struggle.

[Above paragraph quoted from: Joseph Wheless Is It God's Word? (Kessinger Publishing) Read the entire book online here (infidels.org) or here (kscable.com)]

Placing the suspicious origin of the book of Deuteronomy aside, Let us take a look at what it says about stone tablets and the ten commandments.

MOSES SPEAKS TO THE PEOPLE

Deuteronomy 4:13 "He declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he commanded you to follow and then wrote them on two stone tablets."

Here again it is reaffirmed that the Ten Commandments are the covenant between the Lord and the people of Israel, and that this covenant, the Ten Commandments, was written on two stone tablets. Recall again that this covenant, the Ten Commandments, was given to Moses by the Lord in Exodus 34:10-28.

It is true that immediately before Deuteronomy 4:13 Moses reminds the people about the time the Lord spoke directly to them. This verbal recitation of commandments by the Lord was recorded in Exodus 20:1-17 and was discussed above. These verbally recited commandments are what we would like the Ten Commandments to be, but as mentioned before these commandments were only given verbally, there is no explicit mention that they were written on stone tablets, they were never declared to be a covenant, and they were never said to be the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments, according to the Bible, are the covenant between the Lord and his people of Israel, as recorded in Exodus 34:10-28

Moses continues talking to the people and eventually he starts talking about what the Lord said directly to them from the mountain, which we know by now is Exodus 20:1-17. In Deuteronomy 5:4-5 Moses says, "The Lord spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the mountain...And he said:" Again Moses is referring to the verbal recitation of commandments by the Lord directly to the people in Exodus 20:1-17 which was discussed above. This time Moses repeats the commandments the Lord spoke to the people at Mount Sini almost verbatim. The minor discrepancy between his memory of what the Lord said many years ago and what the Lord actually said as recorded in Exodus 20:1-17 is understandable. We now know which of the two recitations of these commandments is the more authentic. Exodus 20:1-17 is what the Lord actually said to the Israelites, and Deuteronomy 5:6-21. is Moses many years later reciting to the Israelites what the Lord said.

This reciting by Moses of the commandments the Lord said directly to the Israelites ends with a piece of information that was absent from the Exodus story. In Deuteronomy 5:22 Moses adds, "These are the commandments the Lord proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness; and he added nothing more." When Moses says, "he added nothing more," Moses is indicating that the Lord did not verbally say anything more. Moses concludes with, "Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me." This is consistent with what we earlier deduced. Recall from our earlier discussion that after the Lord spoke these verbal commands directly to the people the Lord then spoke privately to Moses detailing a multitude of laws about how the Hebrews are to conduct themselves which stretches on for three chapters (Exodus chapters 21,22,23). After this the Lord wrote "the law and commands" on two tablets of stone and handed them to Moses. Although the Bible does not state exactly what the Lord wrote on these stone tablets, we deduced that logically the Lord would have written the commandments he verbally told the people directly (Exodus 20:1-17 and then repeated by Moses many years later in Deuteronomy 5:6-21), followed by the rest of the law as contained in the three chapters of Exodus (Exodus chapters 21,22,23). Notice, and this is important, nowhere in this narrative is it ever said that these words the Lord spoke directly to the people are the "Ten Commandments".

There are only three places in the Bible where the phrase, "Ten Commandments", is used. We have already discussed the first two. Now we shall look at the third and last place in the Bible where the phrase, "Ten Commandments", is used. In Deuteronomy 10:1-3 Moses is reciting the story of how he broke the first tablets in a fit of rage the moment he comes down from the mountain, and he takes two new tablets up to the Lord so the Lord can make a new copy. Then in Deuteronomy 10:1-4 Moses says,

"At that time the LORD said to me, 'Cut out for yourself two tablets of stone like the former ones, and come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood for yourself. I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you shattered, and you shall put them in the ark.' So I made an ark of acacia wood and cut out two tablets of stone like the former ones, and went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hand. He wrote on the tablets, like the former writing, the Ten Commandments which the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and the LORD gave them to me."

Here Moses is claiming the statements the Lord verbally spoke directly to the people are also the Ten Commandments, the Ten Commandments we are all familiar with, the Ten Commandments we want to be the Ten Commandments. But these are not the Ten Commandments of the covenant, these are a different set of Ten Commandments.

There is only one possible conclusion. There are two sets of statements, both called the Ten Commandments. This is not necessarily a contradiction. There is for example more than one person named "David" in the world. If there is any ambiguity you only need to make it clear which "David" you are referring to. It is the same with the Ten Commandments. There are two sets of Ten Commandments. The first set of statements, called the Ten Commandments, are the covenant between the Lord and the people of Israel. The second set of statements, which happen to also be called the Ten Commandments, are the ones spoken by the Lord directly to the people from the mountain top. Both sets of statements were written on the stone tablets as we deduced earlier.

AUTHORS OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

Modern scholars attribute Exodus 20 to P, Deut. 5 to D, and exodus 34 to J.

"The differences between the Ten Commandments as they appear in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 indicate that there was an original text of the Ten Commandments—which appears to have been a part of E originally—that was elaborated upon by the person who produced " in typical P terminology, and by the person who produced Dtr¹ in typical D terminology. Compare especially the Sabbath commandment in Exodus 20:11 and Deut. 5:15. The J text of the Ten Commandments meanwhile appears in Exodus 34:14:28." [From the book: Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard Elliott Friedman. Year: 1987.]

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Exodus 20:1-17	Deuteronomy 5:6-21
And God spoke all these words:	And he [God] said:
1. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.	1. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
2. You shall have no other gods before me.	2. You shall have no other gods before me.
3. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.	3. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
4. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand [generations] of those who love me and keep my commandments.	4. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand [generations] of those who love me and keep my commandments.
5. You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.	5. You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
6. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.	6. Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.
7. Six days you shall labor and do all your work,	7. Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
8. but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates.	8. but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor the alien within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest, as you do.
9. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.	9. Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.
10. Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.	10. Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
11. You shall not murder.	11. You shall not murder.
12. You shall not commit adultery.	12. You shall not commit adultery.
13. You shall not steal.	13. You shall not steal.
14. You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.	14. You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
15. You shall not covet your neighbor's house.	15. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.
16. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife,	16. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor's house or land,
17. or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.	17. his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.