Which Commandments?

Which "commandments"? This is the question. These are only ten of the 613 commandments found in the Hebrew Bible. Shall we use the King James version (translated from the Greek Septuagint, translated from Hebrew), in which the sixth commandment reads "thou shall not kill"? How about the direct Hebrew to English translation, in which the same commandment reads "thou shalt not murder"(Exodus 20:13)? What about those laid out in Deuteronomy, chapter five, from the same Hebrew to English translation? Seriously, should law abiding citizens observe the Sabbath, or remember the Sabbath. Really, law abiding citizens ought to worship none other than the Judeo-Christian version of God. What's that, you worship idols? You must not understand the principles that this nation was founded on. Give yourself to the Torah, or the Pentateuch, or the Old Testament, or the Tanakh -- whatever you want to call it; these values embody the spirit of the nation -- our values -- our traditions.

Maybe we should create a monument of law that everyone can agree upon. Of course, if one is to extract the religious nature from the commandments as they are, they end up with two laws; Thou shalt not kill (or murder?), and Thou shalt not steal. That's it.

We the people, right?