what are the ten commandments ?

[barneysdad]

what are the ten commandments ,i know what they are for but what are all ten of them?

[woofgang]

I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
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:
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;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
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.
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: 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:
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.
12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
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.

exodus 20

[Cetti]

There are actually over 600 of them.

Good job you only asked for the main ones - unless woofgang gets bored and feels like typing them all....!

[woofgang]

nah, I am a cut and paste merchant

[QmunkE]

I always find it amusing the way that "kill" is often translated into "murder" to get around the fact that all soldiers who kill can be exemted from breaking this commandment - especially in the case of religious wars.

[Clanad]

The King James version of the Bible, still the most referenced translation which was published nearly 400 years ago, renders the Hebrew "Lo tirtzach" as "Thou shalt not kill." However, tirtzach means "murder" -- namely, to take a human life under the wrong circumstances. The Bible is full of references to sanctioned killing in times of war and as punishment for a variety of crimes. Thus, the idea that the Decalogue's "Thou shalt not kill" was 'changed' for any purpose does not withstand historical accuracy...