And it shall come to pass when the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land of the Canaanites whither thou goest to take possession of it, thou shalt erect unto thee large stones, and thou shalt cover them with lime, and thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this Law, and it shall come to pass when ye cross the Jordan, ye shall erect these stones which I command thee upon Mount Gerizim, and thou shalt build there an altar unto the Lord thy God, an altar of stones, and thou shalt not lift upon them iron, of perfect stones shalt thou build thine altar, and thou shalt bring upon it burnt offerings to the Lord thy God, and thou shalt sacrifice peace offerings, and thou shalt eat there and rejoice before the Lord thy God. And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tablets of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
God has come to test you, so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning.”. The fifth commandment: "Honor thy father and thy mother," corresponds to the tenth: "Covet not thy neighbor's wife," for one who indulges this lust produces children who will not honor their true father, but will consider a stranger their father. Moses met with God and the 10 Commandments were written for the people to follow. Friedman, Richard Elliott. Website design and development by 3Fold. The ACLU has been supported by a number of religious groups (such as the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.),[156] and the American Jewish Congress[157]), both because they do not want government to be issuing religious doctrine and because they feel strongly that the commandments are inherently religious. [142][143][144][145], According to these scholars the Bible includes multiple versions of events. [4] and Deuteronomy 10:4.
The New Testament is in agreement that murder is a grave moral evil,[118] and references the Old Testament view of bloodguilt.[119]. ", http://apps.pcusa.org/ga216/business/commbooks/comm03.pdf, AJCongress Voices Opposition to Courtroom Display of ten Commandments, Learn how and when to remove this template message, The Ten Commandments of God and The Lord's Prayer, "Ten Commandments Monuments and the Rivalry of Iconic Texts", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ten_Commandments&oldid=980288483, Articles containing explicitly cited English-language text, Articles containing Ancient Greek-language text, Pages containing links to subscription-only content, Articles with dead external links from January 2018, Articles with permanently dead external links, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from July 2019, Articles with unsourced statements from July 2020, Articles with unsourced statements from March 2016, Articles with unsourced statements from February 2020, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. [141] Since this passage does not prohibit murder, adultery, theft, etc., but instead deals with the proper worship of Yahweh, some scholars call it the "Ritual Decalogue", and disambiguate the ten commandments of traditional understanding as the "Ethical Decalogue".