REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY

4. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work. 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. 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.

5. Honour thy father and thy mother; that thy days maybe long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
6. Thou shalt not kill.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8. Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor anything that is thy neighbour's.

‘These words the Lord spake unto all your assembly, in the mount out of the midst of the fire, and of the cloud, and of the thick darkness with a great voice: and He added no more.' Deuteronomy 5:22.(Emphasis added)

WHAT WAS GOD DOING AT SINAI?

• These were not new principles that were being given, but at this time God was specific as to what His law was.
  He reminded them that the Sabbath was His day and it was holy. The fourth commandment begins with the word 'Remember'. It did not begin with 'Thou shalt not…'
• God was giving them a basis for everyday life. Stealing and murder and adultery still require court cases today to sort out. God was talking about things which have become fundamental to all people and are now incorporated in the laws of every land, known of by every atheist and every religion. Something of the ways of God is known to every human being.

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