Some of that may vary with translations, but the principle is still there. The Deuteronomy text contains three “you shall” commands, six “you shall not” commands, four “neither shall you” commands, one “observe” command, and one “honor” command, for a total of fifteen “command” statements. The Exodus text contains two “you shall” commands, ten “you shall not” commands, one “remember” command and one “honor” command, for a total of fourteen “command” statements.
Graven image commandment full#
The full text of the commandments can be found in both Exodus Chapter 20, and Deuteronomy Chapter 5. We know there are ten of them because Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 4:13, Deuteronomy 10:4 tell us Moses received ten commandments from God.īut when you actually look at the text of the commandments, they are not numbered. Most people do not realize within Sacred Scripture, the ten commandments are not actually numbered. But is this accurate? Is the way they number the commandments the “Biblical” way? If you follow the link in that text to the “Ten Commandments,” it gives a list of the “Biblical” ten commandments that quite coincidentally uses the numbering system in place by most Protestants.
The omission seems especially suspicious in light of the fact that the Roman Catholic Church has long been accused of the idolatrous use of graven images. While it is understandable for “you shall not make any graven images” to be considered an aspect of “you shall not have other gods beside me,” based on the history of idolatry involving graven images throughout biblical and extra-biblical history, it seems unwise to not include “you shall not make any graven images” in every listing of the Ten Commandments. You shall not have other gods beside Me.” Suspiciously absent is what comprises the second commandment in the Protestant numbering of the Ten Commandments: “You shall not make any graven images.” In the Catholic catechism and in most official Catholic documents, the first and second commandments are combined and then summarized with “I am the Lord your God. The Catholic Church long ago began making allowances for the idolatrous use of images by the way they reference the Ten Commandments. A common charge against the Catholic Church is we “leave out” one of the commandments – specifically the one to not make idols.
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