#4 - Remember the Sabbath Day.
Keep It Separate! "Observe the
sabbath day and keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded
you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the
seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God; you shall not
do any work?you, or your son or your daughter, or your male
or female slave, or your ox or your donkey, or any of your
livestock, or the resident alien in your towns, so that your
male and female slave may rest as well as you. Remember that
you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God
brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an
outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you
to keep the sabbath day."
The Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, are a list of religious and moral imperatives that according to religious tradition, were written by God and given to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of two stone tablets. They feature prominently in Judaism and Christianity. In Biblical Hebrew language, the commandments are termed and in Rabbinical Hebrew (translit. Aseret ha-Dibrot), both translatable as "the ten statements." The name "Decalogue" is derived from the Greek name or "dekalogos"
("ten statements") found in the Septuagint (Exodus 34:28,
Deuteronomy 10:4), which is the Greek translation of the Hebrew
name.
The phrase "Ten Commandments" generally refers to the very similar passages in Exodus 20:2?17 and Deuteronomy 5:6?21. Some distinguish between this "Ethical Decalogue" and a series of ten commandments in Exodus 34 that are
labeled the "Ritual Decalogue."
The commandments passage in Exodus contains more than ten imperative statements,
totaling fourteen or fifteen in all. However, the Bible itself
assigns the count of "Ten," using the Hebrew phrase Various religions divide these statements among the Commandments in different ways, and may also translate the Commandments differently.
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