10 Commandments, Seven day week, 365 day year...

The 10 commandments come from Exodus 20:1-17. Here is the verse:

And God spoke all these words, saying: "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

1. You shall have no other gods before me.

(okay, so the dude wants to be a dictator)

2. 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. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

(Dude, jealousy is not a good trait to have. I don't have children...)

3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

(well, there goes everybody...)

4. 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. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

(there goes the Europeans, since many of them have a 32 hour work week. And there goes most American's since our country declared a 40 hour work week and many have a two day weekend for yard work. Of course, for the Maya or native Indians, and the like, that now shuts them out due to the fact that Dude made it a seven day week and calendar due solely to this commandment. Forget that we had to figure out how manage to create a 365 day rotational year while trying to manage this 7 day thing mathematically)

5. Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

(I honor my folks, but there may be some that don't since they may have been molested, beaten, locked in closets, "no wire hangers"...)

6. You shall not murder.

(Most do abide by that one, but there goes Bush...)

7. You shall not commit adultery.

(most abide by this one, but there goes most politicians...)

8. You shall not steal.

(there goes Bush for the year 2000 and 2004...)

9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

(Come one really? People talk behind others backs all the time...there goes everyone I have come across...)

10. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s."

(ok, there goes any women due to either their lust for Brad Pitt or Denzel Washington and there goes any men for Halle Berry or Angelina Jolie...I know that jealousy is not very becoming, but it's ok for Dude to be jealous, but we can't? See #2...what about the whole same image thing...)



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