Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments from the Aramaic P’shitta Exodus 20:1-17.

God spoke all these words:
I am Mar-Yah (Yahweh) your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods besides me.

You shall not make for yourself any image, no likeness of what is within the waters under the earth; you shall not worship them nor bow down to them, for I am Mar-Yah your God, a jealous God who punishes the sins of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me; but I show mercy to thousands of generations, to those who love me and to those who keep my commandments.

You shall not swear falsely in the name of Mar-Yah your God, for Mar-Yah will not consider anyone foolish who swears falsely in His Name.

Remember the Sabbath day so that you may sanctify it; you shall labour six days to do all your work, but the seventh day is a day of rest to Mar-Yah your God; you shall not do any labour in it, neither your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor the foreigner who lives in your cities; for Mar-Yah made the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that is in them in six days, and rested on the seventh day; that is why God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it.

Honour your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that Mar-Yah your God gave you.

You will not murder.

You will not commit adultery.

You will not steal.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.

You shall not covet your neighbour’s house; you shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, nor her male servant, nor her female servant, nor her ox, nor her donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbour.