Four Versions of the Ten Commandments: The Fourth Commandment

This is the fourth in a series of blogs that presents four versions of the Ten Commandments (based on Exodus 20). Each blog presents a commandment from the sources listed in chronological order below:

(1) Rabbinic Judaism (200 CE)

(2) Catholicism (325 CE)

(3) Protestantism (16^th century CE)

(4) Biblical Heritage Center (analysis completed in 2014 CE)

The Fourth Commandment

Rabbinic Judaism

You shall remember the Sabbath and keep it Holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the Seventh Day is the Shabbat of the Lord your God. In it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates. 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 Shabbat Day, and hallowed it.

Catholicism

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you. 

Protestantism

You shall remember the Sabbath and keep it Holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the Seventh Day is the Shabbat of the Lord your God. In it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates. 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 Shabbat Day, and hallowed it.

Biblical Heritage Center

You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that takes His name in vain. You shall remember the Sabbath and keep it Holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the Seventh Day is the Shabbat of the Lord your God. In it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates. 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 Shabbat Day, and hallowed it. Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God gives you.

Don’t keep this information to yourself – share it with others. The next time someone says something about the Ten Commandments, be sure to ask which version.

CLICK HERE to read our blog on the FIRST COMMANDMENT.

CLICK HERE to read our blog on the SECOND COMMANDMENT.

CLICK HERE to read our blog on the THIRD COMMANDMENT.

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