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Copeland said he thinks the Ten Commandments, including the one about the Sabbath, serve two purposes. One is to lay down basic principles by which to live a meaningful life. The other is to demonstrate that all humans fall short of God’s commands and are in need of a savior.

Ten Commandments

• I am the LORD thy God.
• No other gods before me.
• No graven images or likenesses.
• Not take the LORD’s name in vain.
• Remember the sabbath day.
• Honour thy father and thy mother.
• Thou shalt not kill.
• Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Jews and Christians recognise the Ten Commandments among other laws. For Muslims, the Five Pillars of Islam are central. Moses received the Ten Commandments directly from God on Mount Sinai, written on two stone tablets.

Generally, Christians believe that the promised New Covenant was instituted at the Last Supper as part of the Eucharist, which in the Gospel of John includes the New Commandment. Based on the Bible teaching that, “For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.

THE 613 MITZVOT

• To know there is a God. (Exodus 20:2)
• To have not other gods. (Exodus 20:3)
• To know that He is one. (Deuteronomy 6:4)
• To love Him. (Deuteronomy 6:5)
• To fear Him. (Deuteronomy 10:20)
• To sanctify His Name. (Leviticus 22:32)
• Not to profane His Name.
• To worship Him as He has ordered and not destroy holy objects.

Bible Gateway Leviticus 11 :: NIV. You may eat any animal that has a split hoof completely divided and that chews the cud. And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you. You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.

Thou knowest the commandments: Do not kill, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor thy father and mother. We expect Jesus to recite the entire Decalogue.

There are 1,050 commands in the New Testament for Christians to obey. Due to repetitions we can classify them under about 800 headings.

The Eighth Commandment of the Ten Commandments may refer to: “Thou shalt not steal”, under the Philonic division used by Hellenistic Jews, Greek Orthodox and Protestants except Lutherans, or the Talmudic division of the third-century Jewish Talmud.

“Thou shalt not bear false witness” forbids: “1. Speaking falsely in any matter, lying, equivocating, and any way devising and designing to deceive our neighbour. 2.

The law forbidding it is universally valid: it obliges each and everyone, always and everywhere… The fifth commandment forbids direct and intentional killing as gravely sinful. The murderer and those who cooperate voluntarily in murder commit a sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance.

In traditions that consider the passage a single commandment, the full text reads: You shan’t covet your neighbor’s house. You shan’t covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. This commandment forbids the desire for another’s property.

Remember the sabbath day

Do the following because I am the lord your god:

1. Don’t worship other gods.
2. Don’t take god’s name in vain.
3. Keep the sabbath.
4. Honor your parents.
5. Don’t murder.
6. Don’t be an adulterer.
7. Don’t steal.
8. Don’t commit perjury.

Since the time of Moses, our basic obligations have been summed up by the famous laws known as The Ten Commandments. God gave us these laws as a guide for the good living of His people and as a check against evil. The teachings in the New Testament remind us we need God’s law but also the spirit of the law.

Exodus 20:17: “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”