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| 2V "I am the [[LORD]] thy [[God]]<Ref name="Elohiym">{{0430}}</Ref>" where  the Hebrew word for ''god'' appears as ’elōheḵā (אֱלֹהֶ֑֔יךָ) here instead of the more common Elohiym(אֱלֹהִ֑ים).
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| 2V 2 "have brought thee out ... of [[bondage]]." We see "have brought thee" in the [[Hebrew]] was not merely as ''yatsa''<Ref name="yatsa">{{03318}}</Ref> But hōwṣêṯîḵā (הוֹצֵאתִ֛יךָ)  consisting of [[Hey]][[Vav]]TzadikAlef[[Tav]][[Yod]][[Kaf]].
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| 3V "Thou shalt have no other [[gods]]"<Ref name="Elohiym">{{0430}}</Ref> In Jordan Peterson's Episode 9 they spoke of many gods today but they never mentioned the [[gods]] who decide what is "good and evil" for them ''in the courts'' as the ''ruling judges'' of the people. They do not know how much like [[Rome]] they have become with their [[free bread]] through the [[legal charity]] of the [[State]] instead of the [[fervent charity]] of the people which ''made America great''.
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| 4V "any [[graven images|graven image]]<Ref name="pecel">{{06459}}</Ref> which is from ''pacal''<Ref name="pacal">{{06458}}</Ref>  consisting of the same letters PeiSamechLamed  meaning ''to cut, hew''.
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| 5V "Thou shalt '''[[worship|not bow down]]''' thyself to them, nor '''[[employ|serve them]]''':
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| V6 "[[mercy]] ... [[love]] me, and [[keep my commandments]].
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| V7 "not take the [[name]] of the [[LORD]] thy [[God]] in [[vain]]"<Ref name="shav3">{{07723}}</Ref>
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| V8 "Remember the '''[[sabbath]]'''" is about working and earning a rest and not borrowing your rest and creating debt.
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| V9 "do all thy work" first and being prepared so you do not have to go into the [[bondage of Egypt]].
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| 11V  "blessed the [[sabbath]] day, and hallowed it." the term hallowed is not merely ''qadash''<Ref name="qadash">{{06942}}</Ref> but wayqaddəšêhū  ('''וַֽיְ'''קַדְּשֵֽׁ'''הוּ׃''') '''VavYod'''KufDaletShin'''HeyVav'''.
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| V12 "[[Honour]]<Ref name="kabad">{{03513}}</Ref> thy father and thy mother" See the '''[[Corban]]''' that ''made the word of God to none effect because you do no more ought for your parents''.
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| V13 The Hebrew  for "not kill" is basically two words (לא תרצח׃ ס) which is nor ''murder''<Ref name="ratsach">{{07523}}</Ref> and seems to mean unjustly take the life of others. It is also said to be a verb in the ''second person'' which is the cause for the Tav.
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| V14 To "not commit [[adultery]]" means not ''adulterating'' anything, not merely your [[marriage]] relationship. But it would include even your relationship by [[faith]] with the Creator God. Most of the time when you see [[adultery]] in the Bible it is referring to ''national [[adultery]]'' or "idolatrous worship". And since "[[covet]]ousness... is [[idolatry]]"<Ref>[[Colossians 3]]:5  Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:</Ref> this would nececarily include consuming the [[benefits]] and [[dainties]] at the [[tables]] of rulers which is a [[snare]] according to the [[warnings]] of David, Paul, Peter<Ref>[[Psalms 6]]9:22 "Let their [[table]] become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] [[welfare]], [let it become] a trap."
: [[Romans 11]]:9 '''"And David saith, Let their [[table]] be made a [[snare]], and a trap, and a [[stumblingblock]], and a recompence unto them:"
: 2 Peter 2:3  And through [[covet]]ousness shall they with feigned words make [[merchandise]] of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
: 2 Peter 2:14  "Having eyes full of [[adultery]], and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with [[covetous practices]]; [[cursed children]]:</Ref> and all the [[prophets]], because they are the [[covetous practices]] which is both [[adultery]] and [[idolatry]]. This would include the the [[benefits]] offered by men in governments who [[exercise authority]] one over the other forbidden by [[Jesus]].<Ref name="exauth">{{exauth}}</Ref>
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| V15 "not steal" is to not take from others by [[force]] or by [[fraud]] which may include ''false witness''.
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|  V16 "not bear false witness" against others.
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| V17 "Thou shalt not [[covet]]" which would include [[covetous practices]] like [[legal charity]] and the [[dainties]] served at the [[tables]] of rulers or [[Benefactors]] which are a [[snare|snare and a trap]].
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| These five [[Ten Statements|statements]] from "not kill" to "not bear false witness" will not be kept if you [[covet]] what is your neighbors. And 
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| 23V "make unto you '''[[Reserve fund|gods of gold]]''' which were central banks holding the wealth of the people like the [[Golden calf]].
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| 25V "of hewn [[stones|stone]]"<Ref name="gaziyth">{{01496}}</Ref> ... "thou hast polluted it." from the root word ''chalal''<Ref name="chalal0">{{02490}}</Ref> but appears as wattəḥallehā (וַתְּחַֽלְלֶֽהָ׃).
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== Ten Statements of God ==

1 And God spake all these words, saying,

2 I am the [[LORD]] thy [[God]]<Ref name="Elohiym">{{0430}}</Ref>, which have brought thee<Ref name="yatsa">{{03318}}</Ref> out of the land of [[Egypt]], out of the house of [[bondage]].

3 Thou shalt have no other [[gods]]<Ref name="Elohiym">{{0430}}</Ref> before me.<Ref name="consentnot">{{consentnot}}</Ref>

4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any [[graven images|graven image]]<Ref name="pecel">{{06459}}</Ref>, 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 Thou shalt [[worship|not bow down]] thyself to them, nor [[employ|serve them]]: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting<Ref name="visit">[[Exodus 20]]:5  Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy 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 shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and [[keep my commandments]].(see [[idolatry]]; [[Exodus 20]]:4  Thou shalt not make unto thee 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:)
: [[Exodus 34]]:7  Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving [[iniquity]] and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear [the guilty]; visiting the [[iniquity]] of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth [generation].
: [[Numbers 14]]:18  The LORD [is] longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing [the guilty], visiting the [[iniquity]] of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation].
: [[Deuteronomy 5]]:9  Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy 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,
: [[Ezekiel 18]]:2  What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?
: [[Jeremiah 31]]:29  In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge. 30  But every one shall die for his own [[iniquity]]: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.</Ref> the [[iniquity]] of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

6 And shewing [[mercy]] unto thousands of them that [[love]] me, and [[keep my commandments]].

7 Thou shalt not take the [[name]] of the LORD thy God in [[vain]]<Ref name="shav3">{{07723}}</Ref>; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his [[name]] in [[vain]].<Ref name="shav3">{{07723}}</Ref>

8 Remember the [[sabbath]] day, to keep it holy.

9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

10 But the seventh day is the [[sabbath]] of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy 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.<Ref name="qadash">{{06942}}</Ref>

12 [[Honour]]<Ref name="kabad">{{03513}}</Ref> thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

== Second Half of the Ten Statements ==

13 Thou shalt not kill.<Ref name="ratsach">{{07523}}</Ref>

14 Thou shalt not commit [[adultery]].<Ref name="naaph">{{05003}}</Ref>

15 Thou shalt not steal.

16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

17 Thou shalt not [[covet]] thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

== People afraid ==

18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.

19 And they said unto [[Moses]], Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

=== Fear Not ===

20 And Moses said unto the people, ''Fear not'': for God is come to prove you, and that his [[fear]] may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

22 And the [[LORD]] said unto [[Moses]], Thus thou shalt say unto the children of [[Israel]], Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

== Altars gods and steps ==

23 Ye shall not make with me [[gods]] of silver, neither shall ye make unto you [[gods]] of [[Reserve fund|gold]].

24 An [[Altars|altar]] of [[Clay and stone|earth thou shalt make]] unto me, and shalt [[sacrifice]] thereon thy [[burnt offering]]s, and thy [[peace offering]]s<Ref name="shelem">{{08002}}</Ref>, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.

25 And if thou wilt make me an [[Altars|altar]] of [[Stones|stone]], thou shalt not build it of hewn stone<Ref name="gaziyth">{{01496}}</Ref>: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.<Ref name="chalal">{{02490}}</Ref>

26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine [[Altars|altar]], that thy [[naked]]ness be not discovered thereon.
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== Footnotes ==

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