THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

1.	I am the Lord your God
2.	You shall have no other gods to rival me
	You shall not make yourself a carved image
3.	You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God
4.	Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy
5.	Honour your father and your mother
6.	You shall not kill
7.	You shall not commit adultery
8.	You shall not steal
9.	You shall not give false evidence against your neighbour
10.	You shall not covet

The Ten Commandments are a covenant between the Jewish people and God.  These Commandments are also known as the Decalogue or in Hebrew Devarim.

Judaism is not the only religion to have commandments, as ancient Babylon and Egypt both had them.  In Babylon they were known as Lex Talionis or The Law of Retaliation and gave rise to the Eye for an Eye phrase, as they literally believed that retribution should be exactly the same as the crime.  Egypt’s commandments were called The Protestation of Guiltness, and had a few similar to the Jewish ones.

End paragraphs written by Sage Robert Worrall

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