TEN COMMANDMENTS

We know there are Ten Commandments, because the Bible tells us so in Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 10:4, and the following passage:

"He proclaimed to you his covenant, which he commanded you to keep:
the Ten Commandments, which he wrote on two tablets of stone."
Deuteronomy 4:13

   

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
	JUDAISM	ORIGEN	AUGUSTINE
1	I am the Lord thy God.	I am the Lord thy God and thou shalt not have other gods before me.	I am the Lord thy God and thou shalt not have strange gods before me.
2	Thou shalt have no other gods before me.	Thou shalt not make for thyself any graven image.	Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
3	Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.	Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.	Remember to keep holy the Lord's Day.
4	Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy.	Remember the Lord's Day to keep it holy.	Honor thy Father and Mother.
5	Honor thy Father and Mother.	Honor thy Father and Mother.	Thou shalt not kill.
6	Thou shalt not murder.	Thou shalt not kill.	Thou shalt not commit adultery.
7	Thou shalt not commit adultery.	Thou shalt not commit adultery.	Thou shalt not steal.
8	Thou shalt not steal.	Thou shalt not steal.	Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
9	Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.	Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.	Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.
10	Thou shalt not covet.	Thou shalt not covet.	Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods.

Comparison of both readings of the Ten Commandments

Below is a comparison of both readings of the Ten Commandments. The first as personally spoken and written by the finger of God and is found in Exodus 20:2-17 and the second which was written down and spoken by Moses and is found in Deuteronomy 5:6-21. Deuteronomy literally means “second law,” and is the last of the five books (the Pentateuch or Torah). Both books are given from the King James Bible in modern English.
The Jews call these first five books “Torah” which means “teaching,” “instruction,” or “law”. It is also called the Law of Moses (Torat Moshe). Torah however, can mean different things in different contexts. Torah primarily refers to the first section of the Tanakh which is an acronym that identifies the Hebrew Bible and is based on the initial Hebrew letters of each of the text's three parts. The first five books of the Tanakh or books of Moses are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. The word Torah can also be used to refer to the entire Jewish bible which to non-Jews is called the Old Testament. To the Jews there is no Old Testament. The books that Christians call the New Testament are not part of Jewish scripture, so what Christians call the Old Testament is known to the Jews as Written Torah or the Tanakh.
This is a list of the books of Written Torah, in the order in which they appear in Jewish translations. The Hebrew names of the first five books are derived from the first few words of the book. The text of each book is fairly similar in Jewish translations as what you see in Christian bibles, although there are some occasional slight differences in the numbering of verses and there are some significant differences in the translations.
Torah (The Law):
Bereishith (In the beginning...) - Genesis
Shemoth (The names...) - Exodus
Vayiqra (And He called...) - Leviticus
Bamidbar (In the wilderness...) - Numbers
Devarim (The words...) - Deuteronomy

No.	Exodus 20:2-17	Deuteronomy 5:6-21
1	2 I am the LORD your God, which have brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 You shall have no other gods before me.	6 I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 7 You shall have none other gods before me.
2	4 You shall not make unto you 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: 5 You shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your 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; 6 And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my Commandments.	8 You shall not make you 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 waters beneath the earth: 9 You shall not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your 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, 10 And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandments.
3	7 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.	11 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
4	8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shall you labour, and do all your work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates: 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.	12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD your God has commanded you. 13 Six days you shall labour, and do all your work: 14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates; that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as well as you. 15 And remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.
5	12 Honour your father and your mother: that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God giveth you.	16 Honour your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you; that your days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the LORD your God giveth you.
6	13 You shall not kill.	17 You shall not kill.
7	14 You shall not commit adultery.	18 Neither shall you commit adultery.
8	15 You shall not steal.	19 Neither shall you steal.
9	16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.	20 Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbour.
10	17 You shall not covet your neighbour's house, you shall not covet your neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is your neighbour's.	21 Neither shall you desire your neighbour's wife, neither shall you covet your neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is your neighbour's.