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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 earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the L ORD 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 ...
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe in this commandment as written in Exodus 20. The commandment has been repeated in the LDS Scriptures such as the Book of Mormon and in Doctrine and Covenants. 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 ...
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour, Lucas Cranach the elder "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor" (Biblical Hebrew: לֹא תַעֲנֶה בְרֵעֲךָ עֵד שָׁקֶר, romanized: Lōʾ t̲aʿăneh b̲ərēʿăk̲ā ʿēd̲ šāqer) (Exodus 20:16) is one of the Ten Commandments, [1] [2] widely understood as moral imperatives in Judaism and ...
This means that there is no longer any a priori reason to believe that Exodus 20:2–17 and Exodus 34:10–28 were composed during different stages of Israelite history. According to John Bright, there was an important distinction between the Decalogue and the "book of the covenant" (Exodus 21–23 and 34:10–24).
Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of 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 unto them, nor serve them; for I the L ORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the ...
The Synod of Elvira (306 AD - 312 AD) "prohibited the exhibition of images in churches". [2] However, since the 3rd century AD, images have been used within Christian worship within parts of Christendom, [3] although some ancient Churches, such as the Church of the East, have apparently long traditions of not using images. [4]
The Old Testament refers to ten individual commandments, [15] [16] [17] even though there are more than ten imperative sentences in the two relevant texts: Exodus 20:1–17 and Deuteronomy 5:6–21. [18] [19] The Old Testament does not make clear how the texts should be divided to arrive at ten commandments.
God sets forth the Ten Commandments concerning man's relationship with God, and man's relationship to each other. The people are frightened by the voice of God and ask Moses to intercede. God then commands Moses to build an altar. PEOPLE: children of Israel - Moses - יהוה YHVH God. PLACES: Biblical Mount Sinai