BS"D
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
(Deuteronomy 5:1-19)
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And Moshe called all of the people of Israel and said to them:
Hear, O Israel, the ordinances and the laws that I speak in your
ears today and learn them and be careful to perform them. Hashem,
our G-d, made a covenant with us at Horeb. Not with our
forefathers did he make this covenant, but rather with us - us,
who are here today, all of us alive. Face to face did Hashem
speak with you on the mountain from within the fire. I was
standing between Hashem and you at that time to tell you the word
of Hashem. Because you were in awe because of the fire and you
did not go up the mountain - saying:
1. I am Hashem your G-d, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
from the house of bondage.
2. You shall have no other gods in My Presence. You shall not
make for yourselves a graven image, nor the form of anything
that is in the heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath,
or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow
down to them, nor worship them; for I am Hashem your G-d - a
zealous G-d, - visiting the sins of the fathers upon the
children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of
them that hate Me; but showing loving-kindness unto the
thousandth generation that love Me and keep My commandments.
3. You shall not take the Name of Hashem your G-d in vain; for the
Hashem will not hold him guiltless that takes His name in vain.
4. Safeguard the Sabbath to sanctify it, as Hashem has commanded
you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work; but on the
seventh day, a Sabbath unto Hashem your G-d, You shall not do
any work - you, your son, your daughter, your manservant, nor
your maidservant, your ox, your donkey, and all your animals
and the convert that is within your gates, so that your
manservant and maidservant shall rest like you. And you will
remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and Hashem
your G-d took you out from there with a mighty hand and an
outstreched arm. Thus Hashem has commanded you to make the
Sabbath day.
5. Honor your father and your mother, as Hashem had commanded you
that your days may be lengthened and that it will be good for
you, on the land which Hashem your G-d gives you.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, You shall not
desire your neighbor's home, his field, or his manservant, or
his maidservant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is
your neighbor's.
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from: The Jewish Education Network
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date: 17 Tamuz 5758 / July 12, 1998
ver: 1.1
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