The 10 Commandments Understood

These are the Ten Commandments that the Lord spoke to the people at Mount Sinai, but these are not the only commandments He wanted the people to do, rather after the Lord spoke these Ten Commandments, the people were so afraid of the Lord, that they did not want to hear His Voice any more, for they thought they would die, so they asked Moses to go up to the peak of Sinai and to get the rest of the law for the people to observe. So here are the 10 commandments that were spoken to all the people at once:

EXODUS 20:2-17

I. I am Yehowah of thy El-s (commonly translated as 'the Lord thy God,' but 'God' here is in a plural form, in Hebrew, that says 'el-s.' Furthermore, an 'El,' is a type of spiritual being [click here for more info on the meaning of el ]), who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other (El-s) before (rather "along side of") us (this word 'us' is also commonly translated in a singular form as 'me,' to read as 'along side of me', but it truly is in a plural form - So what is this commandment saying? It is saying that the son who is an el, a particular spiritual being, is the one that is talking and giving the commandment and that you must not have any other els besides the Father and himself - this flies even in the face of Jewish translations of the text, because they are not aware of the pre-existence of the Moshiach or the prince of heaven, but rather he simply comes into existence when he is finally conceived 'among his brethren.')

II. You must not make (this is simply 'make,' but you also must not 'have,' 'own,' nor 'borrow,') for yourself an idol (nor icon, picture, image, statue) in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You must not bow down to them or worship them (this is different than having them and also making them); for I, Yehowah of thy El-s, am a jealous El, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand {generations} of those who love me and keep my commandments.

III. You must not use the name,Yehowah thy EL, in a vain manner, for Yehowah will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name (this is not talking about "profanity" as most preachers preach. Rather this deals with taking an oath or speaking a vow in His name and then not fulfilling your word, thus using His name "in a vain manner.").

IV. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. (This list however does not mention "wife." Not to say that the wife is excluded from observing the sabbath, but because she is a married woman, she is allowed to break the normal rules of sabbath so that she can nurture her new born child and those that are still nursing and that need their clothes changed after they excremented on themselves.)

V. Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

VI. You must not commit murder (This is not the same as killing. For to murder someone is to slay them with malice. but to kill is to slay someone because they are already guilty of a capital offence).

VII. You must not commit adultery (This is not the same as fornication. Fornication is when a single man or even a married man has sex with a single woman. Now in American and other cultures if the man were married this would be adultery, but in biblical observance of the Torah a man can have more than one wife, therefore it is not adultery. A woman however can only have one man. Thus in order for a man to actually commit adultery or the woman to do so with the man, the woman has to be married to someone else. The penalty for this crime is death by stoning of the two people. Rape of a single woman is fornication as well, which is highly evil).

VIII. You must not steal.

IX.You must not give false testimony against your neighbor (This is more than just lying, but to lie in a court of law, to either defend the guilty or to get what you want to make an innocent person guilty and thus doing what is evil in the sight of Yehowah).

X. You must not covet your neighbor's house. You must not covet your neighbor's wife (now the reason it says, 'wife' is not because you own her like everything else that is on the list, but because she is under the Lord's marriage covenant, thus a person must not even have thoughts about someone's wife, for that is coveting), or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor." (This list however does not say, "you must not covet you neighbor's daughter or son", the reason for this is because you are allowed to do this, because they are still single and not yet married. However when you covet someone's unmarried daughter or son, you must not go so far as to have fornicative thoughts with that person. Rather you may only covet them to the point of just wanting to spend the rest of your life with that particular person. Furthermore, a unmarried son or daughter is not bound by an oath of marriage to anyone. Thus is why they are not listed under this command. You are also allowed to desire your neighbor's things if they are for sale. Now to understand why this command was given is because it deals with the heart, like the first command does. For once the first command is broken only then the second command can be broken. Thus we are dealing with the heart, not just outer appearances. Thus in the same manner, one does not break the 8th command, unless he first break the 10th. This also goes for breaking the 7th command. It even might include the 6th command, for many times in society murder is based on theft and that is based on coveting someone's things. Thus the Lord wants you to quench evil desires before it leads to crimes, which leads us all into a vile society.)

NOTES:

The Father is rarely seen or gets mentioned within the events that are told in the Tanach or other writings. One reason for this is because the Father glorifies His wonderful and beautiful son and so practically all scripture refers to the son. Only about 11 times is the Father really talked about or seen. For even the Son says to the Pharisees, 'You have never heard his (the Father's) voice, nor seen his form, nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one He sent. You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life.

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