The fear of God that was upon them would keep them from sinning. Moses told them not to fear and that the Lord only came to test them. They were afraid that they would die if that happened. They told Moses to tell them what God had said instead of having the Lord speak directly to them. When the people of Israel saw the thunder and lightning, they were very afraid. They were not to murder, commit adultery, bare false witness, steal or covet. These included commands for people to honor their father and mother. The other commandments of the Lord followed. He wanted His people to honor the Sabbath day similarly and refrain from working on this day. He explained that He made the land, the seas, and everything on earth in six days. God also told the people of Israel to remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. Additionally, God commanded that nobody was to use the Lord’s name in vain, or use it improperly. He also told them that they should not make any images of Him from any type of material. The first of the commandments was for there to be no god other than the Lord Himself who had delivered the people of Israel from the hands of the Egyptians. The Lord had spoken the words to Moses which were the laws that the Israelites were to obey. According to my Jerusalem Bible, it was St Augustine that gave us what became for the Church this later version of the 10 Commandments we all learnt at school and is still basic Catholic teaching, clearly and brilliantly set out for example in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Part 3, Section 2.The main feature of Exodus Chapter 20 centers around the Ten Commandments. So that 2nd commandment wasn’t considered as important in Christianity, and dropped from the list of commandments.Īnd what in Ex and Dt was the 10th commandment, was separated into the two prohibitions on coveting you list – the 9th against wrongly desiring people and that 10th against wrongly desiring things. That’s because the Incarnation gives a whole new perspective on matter, and more importantly on how, in the Incarnation and the sacraments, especially the Eucharist, God raises matter to a whole new level. I guess because God became man in the Incarnation, Christianity does not, unlike Judaism and Islam, prohibit images of God. Since they count the graven images prohibition as a separate commandment, they both have as their 10th commandment the general prohibition of coveting, with slightly different order in Ex and DT to what’s not to be coveted.
Both of them have the same 1st commandment you have, and both have as a 2nd commandment the prohibition of making graven images. Hi John, there are two, slightly different versions of the Ten Commandments, one in Exodus 20, the other in Deuteronomy 5. Why? What ever happened to that commandment? Nowhere did I ever learn about a “Graven Images” commandment, and when I watched the film, it removed the coveting thy neighbor’s wife commandment for that one. “Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s Belongings.”
“Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s Wife.”ġ0. “Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbor”ĩ. “Remember the Sabbath Day and to Always Keep it Holy”Ĩ. “Thou Shalt Not take the name of the Lord the God in Vain”ģ. “I am the Lord Thy God, Thou Shalt Not have any other a Gods before me.”Ģ. “Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery” was but I am Catholic, 38 years of age and I was taught “Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s Neighbor’s Wife” was a commandment and I never learned “Thou Shalt Not Bring Unto Thee Any Graven Image.” What happened to that commandment. I was watching the Ten Commandments and I saw that “Thou Shalt Not Bring Unto Thee Any Graven Image” was a commandment, however “Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s Wife” was not.
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