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7 - Moral arithmetic: Seven Sins into Ten Commandments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2009

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And God spake all these words, saying,

I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of

Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

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:

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;

And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and

keep my commandments.

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.

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

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, nor thy

manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor the stranger

that is within thy gates…

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon

the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Thou shalt not kill.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Thou shalt…

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1988

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