Twelve Commandments

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Here is the Protestant version of the Ten Commandments, as they appear
in in Exodus 20:3-17:

1.    I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt not have strange Gods before me.
2.    Thou shalt not make idols for worship
3.    Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
4.    Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day.
5.    Honor they father and thy mother.
5.    Thou shalt not kill.
7.    Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8.    Thou shalt not steal.
9.    Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
10.   Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife or anything else that
      belongs to him.

The Roman Catholic version removes the second, the one about idols. To
make up for the difference, they split the tenth into two commandments:
one forbidding the coveting of a neighbor's wife, and the other
forbidding the coveting of his goods. The reason for this is the obvious
fact that Catholicism does not agree with the second commandment, since
this particular sect practically revolves around idols.
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