#3 - YOU
SHALL NOT TAKE THE NAME OF YOUR GOD IN VAIN!
"You shall
not make wrongful use of the name of the LORD your God, for
the LORD will not acquit anyone who misuses his name."
This commandment prohibits not just swearing but
the misappropriation of religious language in order to
commit a crime, participating in occult practices, and
blaspheming against places or people that are holy to
God
The Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, are a list of religious and moral imperatives that according to religious tradition, were written by God and given to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of two stone tablets. They feature prominently in Judaism and Christianity. In Biblical Hebrew language, the commandments are termed and in Rabbinical Hebrew (translit. Aseret ha-Dibrot), both translatable as "the ten statements." The name "Decalogue" is derived from the Greek name or "dekalogos"
("ten statements") found in the Septuagint (Exodus 34:28,
Deuteronomy 10:4), which is the Greek translation of the Hebrew
name.
The phrase "Ten Commandments" generally refers to the very similar passages in Exodus 20:2?17 and Deuteronomy 5:6?21. Some distinguish between this "Ethical Decalogue" and a series of ten commandments in Exodus 34 that are
labeled the "Ritual Decalogue."
The commandments passage in Exodus contains more than ten imperative statements,
totaling fourteen or fifteen in all. However, the Bible itself
assigns the count of "Ten," using the Hebrew phrase Various religions divide these statements among the Commandments in different ways, and may also translate the Commandments differently.
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