The original set of Commandments were the moral compass for the refugees that were escaping slavery and dreaming of a better place.
I0 LAWS
1. CREATOR
“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.”
2. NO IDOLS
“You shall not recognise other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.”
3. RESPECT, do not blaspheme.
“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.”
4. SATURDAY
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female employee, your animal or your visitor, within your gates.”
5. PARENTS
“Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.”
6. KILLING
“You shall not murder.”
7. CHEATING
“You shall not commit adultery.”
8 THEFT
“You shall not steal.”
9. SLANDER
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.”
10. ENVY
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his business or his vehicles or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools” Martin Luther King
EARTH IS A PRISON
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