Monday 28 September 2009

Spot the difference

The Roman Catholic Version of the 10 Commandments:

1. I am the LORD your God: you shall not have strange Gods before me.

2. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.
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9. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.

10. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.



Exodus 20:

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

You shall have no other gods before me.

You shall not make for yourself a graven 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 or serve them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.



You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's.

The Roman Catholic Church's Catechism takes the '2nd Command', assumes that is is covered by the 1st, and erases it from the 10 commandments.
Interesting.

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