Additional Commandments

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Chapter 19 lists 31 commandments:

  1. Honor your father and mother.
  2. Keep the Sabbath Day. The word "Sabbath" means to desist or refrain. It is a Hebrew verb. Its origin is found in the book of Genesis, six days God worked and on the seventh day, He rested. The Sabbath was not kept until Moses, in the Exodus, made it a sign of the covenant between God and man. It became like circumcision, distinction between Jew and Gentile. Jesus worshipped, as was the custom, on the Sabbath, so how did it change for us Christians? Paul worshipped on the Sabbath but he did not force Gentile converts to observe the Sabbath. (Rom. 14:5 & Col. 4:9) At first, because most of the converts were Jews, they continued to worship on the Sabbath but gradually they came to celebrate Sunday, the first day of the week, as the anniversary of the resurrection of Christ and as a time for the "breaking of bread" and the gathering of offerings for the poor and persecuted.
  3. Do not turn to idols.
  4. Offer your offerings so that they are acceptable to the Lord. (Note the difference between the attitudes of Cain and Abel in their offerings)
  5. Leave some of your harvest for the poor.
  6. You shall not steal.
  7. You shall not deal falsely.
  8. You shall not swear by my name falsely.
  9. You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him.
  10. Pay your help each day.
  11. Do not curse the deaf. (Considered to be possessed)
  12. Do not put a stumbling block before the blind.
  13. Judge justly.
  14. Do not hate your brother or bear a grudge.
  15. You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
  16. You shall keep my statutes.
  17. Do not mix breeds of animals, nor sow 2 kinds of seed in the same field.
  18. Do not wear a garment that is made of two different kinds of material.
  19. If a man lies with a woman who is a slave, he shall bring a ram as a Guilt Offering to the Lord.
  20. When you plant trees for food, the fruit shall not be eaten the first three years. The fourth year, it shall be offered to the Lord. The fifth year, you may eat it.
  21. You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it.
  22. You shall not practice witchcraft.
  23. No cutting of the hair at the temple or the beard.
  24. No tattoos.
  25. You shall not make your daughter a harlot. (Molock)
  26. You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my Sanctuary.
  27. Do not consult with mediums.
  28. Honor an old man.
  29. You shall fear your God.
  30. Do no harm to a stranger.
  31. You shall have just weights and measures.


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