Ten commandments

Ten commandments

You can count different ways, but it is difficult to come up with ten commandments. The word used for commandment is dabar meaning 'words' or 'matters'. God had ten matters to discuss.

There are three positives that God mentions, and the negatives which follow relate to them. The first four are based on the principle or reason that God is God. Each of the four represents one of the four voices of God. The Sabbath is done as a reminder the same way that communion is a reminder. The last are things that would shame your parents in an honor culture. They shame God if you claim to be his.

Ex 34:28 ¶ And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments [matters, words - דבר].

I. Ex 20:2 I [am] the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

I.1. Ex 20:3 Thou shalt not have other gods before me. [priest]

I.2. Ex 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth: [prophet]

I.3. Ex 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me; :Ex 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. [judge]

I.4. Ex 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. [king]

II. Ex 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. :Ex 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: Ex 20:10 But the seventh day [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy God:

II.1. [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates: :Ex 20:11 For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them [is], and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

III. Ex 20:12 ¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

III.1. Ex 20:13 Thou shalt not kill.

III.2. Ex 20:14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.

III.3. Ex 20:15 Thou shalt not steal.

III.4. Ex 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

III.5. Ex 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour’s.