Thou shalt not murder

Know G-d. Understand Him to the best of your ability. ("I am the L-rd, your G-d who took you out of Egypt" sounds like a statement, not an instruction. Sometimes, you need to look beneath the surface to understand the message).

One of them? I can quote all 15 of them! Yes, there are 15 ... 14 if you don't take the first declaration as the first commandment, but the Jews do. But after that declaration there are 14 imperative statments, though some of them complement each other. Why then do we talk about "the 10 Commandments"? Because "10" is an old Hebrew idiom for "complete, exhaustive, lacking nothing, and with nothing extraneous". Actually, the term "the 10 Commandments" is used only 3 times in the Bible, and on two of those occassions it's referring NOT to the so-called Decalogue, but to ALL the laws and statutes of Moses, laid out in Exodus-through-Deuteronomy. But because the third reference seems to be referring only to the Exodus chapter 20, people have come to think of these as "the 10 Commandments". Consequently, they have tried to list them as 10, causing them to combine some with others, BUT the Jews, the Catholics (along with Lutherans), the Orthodox, and those denominations coming out of Calvinism all enumerate them slightly differently - consequently, the 5th commandment according to Calvinists is the 4th Commandment according to Catholics. But, as for the so-called Decalogue: #1: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. (This is the 1st "Commandment" according to the Jews, as it is the one point on which all the rest of the Law is based.) #2: Thou shalt have no other Gods before me. #3: 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 #4: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them #5: Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain #6: Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy #7: Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work #8: 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 #9: Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. #10: Thou shalt not kill. #11: Thou shalt not commit adultery. #12: Thou shalt not steal. #13: Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. #14: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house #15: 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. Most everyone combines 3-4 (idolatry), and 6-8 (the Sabbath), and all but the Catholics and Lutherans combine 14&15 (coveting). But that still leaves 11, 12 for the Catholics and Lutherans. The Jews combine 2-4 (monotheism & no idolatry), and also 6-8 (the Sabbath), 14-15 (don't covet). Protestants (except Lutherans) don't count #1, keep #2 separate, combine 3&4, but otherwise follow the Jews combining 6-8, and 14&15. The Orthodox combine 1&2, 3&4, 6-8, and 14&15. The Catholics and Lutherans combine 1-4, 6-8, and then mix up 14 and 15: they keep them separate, but switch "house" and "wife" so that their 9th commandment is "don't covet your neighbor's wife" and the 10th is "don't covet ... anything that is your neighbors."