(Exodus 20:2-17 NKJV)
| The Ten
Commandments are given to Moses in Exodus 20:2-17 by the word of
God. Moses stood at the top of the Mount as God speaks to him from
a burning bush. The Commandments are given as an instruction to us all as to how we should conduct our lives and to remain faithful to God. By keeping to these Laws, it is written that we shall surly be allowed to enter into Heaven after our time here on Earth. |
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Moses repeats these Commandments to a crowd in Deuteronomy 5:6-21
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1st Commandment
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2nd Commandment
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 beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.
3rd Commandment
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
4th Commandment
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labour and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
5th Commandment
Honour your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
6th Commandment
You shall not kill.
7th Commandment
You shall not commit adultery.
8th Commandment
You shall not steal.
9th Commandment
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.
10th Commandment
You shall not covet your neighbour's house; you shall not covet your neighbour's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbour's.
