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Different religious traditions categorize the seventeen verses of Exodus 20:1–17 [28] and their parallels in Deuteronomy 5:4–21 [29] into ten commandments in different ways as shown in the table. Some suggest that the number ten is a choice to aid memorization rather than a matter of theology.
These laws were the Ten Commandments delivered to Moses on two stone tablets. The first and most important commandment was that they must not worship any god other than the Lord. [3] [12] Whoever violated this commandment should be killed [13] and Exodus 22:20 reads "Whoever sacrifices to any god other than the Lord must be destroyed."
The First Commandment of the Ten Commandments may refer to: " I am the Lord thy God ", under the Talmudic division of the third-century Jewish Talmud " Thou shalt have no other gods before me ", under the Philonic division used by Hellenistic Jews and Protestants
In his exposition of Exodus 20 on the “Thru The Bible” radio program, [33] J. Vernon McGee, quotes Romans 1:21-25 and Colossians 3:5 to support his assertion that the idolatry forbidden by the first commandment includes not only the worship of idols and foreign gods, but also idols of the heart such as greed, alcohol, and sexual immorality.
A review of the Commandments is one of the most common types of examination of conscience used by Catholics before receiving the sacrament of Penance. [5] The Commandments appear in the earliest Church writings; [6] the Catechism states that they have "occupied a predominant place" in teaching the faith since the time of Augustine of Hippo (AD ...
[3] [4] [5] The Book of Exodus describes the Ten Commandments as being spoken by God, inscribed on two stone tablets by the finger of God, broken by Moses, and rewritten by Yahweh on a replacement set of stones hewn by Moses. [6] The command against false testimony is seen as a natural consequence of the command to "love your neighbour as ...
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