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Moses
stops by and admits that the Ten Commandments would benefit from an update to
make them even more relevant to life today. You agree to help by suggesting
changes to present commandments and/or offering new ones to add to the
tablets.
Directions: In a short posting, please identify which
commandments might benefit from a change, and, if so, what changes you
would suggest and why. In addition, please share any new commandments
that might be added to the list to make the tablets even more relevant to life
today.
Below are the original ten that made it down the mountain
with Moses.
The
Ten Commandments
- You shall have no other gods before me.
- You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or
any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the
earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not
bow down to them nor serve them.
- You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in
vain (swearing a false oath).
- Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days
you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath
of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor
your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.
- Honor your father and your mother, that your days may
be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
- You shall not murder.
- You shall not commit adultery.
- You shall not steal.
- You shall not
bear false witness against your neighbor (lies and false accusations).
- You shall not
covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife
[or husband], nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his
donkey, [nor the Corvette] nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
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