Citations
- A listing of roughly 6 commandments roughly correlating with the 10 Commandments.
- A listing of roughly 8 commandments roughly correlating with the 10 Commandments.
- 33) But now Abinadi said unto them: I know if ye keep the commandments of God ye shall be saved; yea, if ye keep the commandments which the Lord delivered unto Moses in the mount of Sinai, saying:
- 34) I am the Lord thy God, who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- 35) Thou shalt have no other God before me.
- 36) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing in heaven above, or things which are in the earth beneath.
- Mosiah recites the remaining commandments.
- The 10 commandments.
- The 10 commandments.
- A translation of the Shapira Scroll, which appears to be a kind of antecedent to Deuteronomy, and presents an interesting variation on the 10 commandments.
- The giving of the Ten Commandments described as a wedding between God and his people.
- Commentary of how Jewish teachings regarding the 10 commandments differs from most modern christian understanding.
- 10 sayings rather than commandments (1st is I am the Lord thy God)
- Steal should be Kidnap
- Kill should be something more like murder (but not exactly the same; he doesn't go into a lot of detail about the Jewish concept forbidden here)
- The two tablets were two copies of the same thing.
- The first 5 items are intended to mirror each other. (Some mirrorings are obvious; he doesn't go into a lot of detail)
- By 3rd commandment, he is using the protestant perspective.
- Discusses 3 interpretations.
Notes
Not everyone agrees about what the 10 commandments consist of. Here are some breakdowns typical of different perspectives.
Catholic
- I, the Lord, am your God. Thou shalt not have other gods besides me.
- Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord God in vain.
- Remember to keep holy the Lord's Day.
- Honor thy father and mother.
- Thou shalt not kill.
- Thou shalt not commit adultery.
- Thou shalt not steal.
- Thou shalt not bear false witness.
- Thou shalt not covet your neighbor's wife.
- Thou shalt not covet your neighbor's goods
Protestant
- Thou shalt have no other gods but me.
- Thou shalt not make unto you any graven images.
- Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
- Thou shalt remember the Sabbath and keep it holy.
- Honor thy mother and father.
- Thou shalt not murder.
- Thou shalt not commit adultery.
- Thou shalt not steal.
- Thou shalt not bear false witness.
- Thou shalt not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.
Jewish
Jews would not consider these to be 10 commandments. Instead, they think of them as 10 "sayings", or "words".
- I am the Lord thy God
- Do not have/make/worship other gods
- Do not swear by God unnecessarily or falsely
- Keep the sabbath
- Honor thy father and mother
- Do not murder
- Do not dishonor marriage
- Do not kidnap
- Do not give false testimony
- Do not desire what belongs to someone else
See: Shapira scroll notes in Apocrypha.
The Shapira Scroll's version of the 10 commandments is one of the major reasons it was originally discounted as a forgery. (Time has improved expert outlook on the scroll.) The 10 commandments, as presented on this scroll clearly separates out 10 "pronouncements". Each pronouncements begins and ends with "I am Elohim, your God". The list, as presented, would imply that we have a missing commandment, which Catholics and Protestants rectify, to get the expected 10, by splitting different commandments for different emphasis.
- Thou shalt have no other gods, and don't make/worship idols
- Keep the sabbath day holy.
- Honor thy father and thy mother.
- Thou shalt not kill.
- Thou shalt not commit adultery.
- Thou shalt not steal (very explicitly "the wealth"; definitely not kidnapping being referred to)
- Thou shalt not swear in my name falsely
- Thou shalt not submit against your fellow a false judgment.
- Thou shalt not covet thy brother's wife/slave/anything.
- Thou shalt not hate thy brother.
Thoughts
Since Abinadi gives us our own LDS version of the 10 Commandments in the Book of Mosiah, it would seem that the Shapira Scroll version, although nice and clean, and unambiguous, is not to be taken too seriously. It does not make any of the other ambiguity less confounding.
Interestingly, D&C 42 splits adultery into two imperatives, and the imperative regarding one's neighbor sounds more like the novel commandment from the Shapira Scroll. Only commandments relating directly to how we relate with others appear to be listed here.
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