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The Ten Commandments, are a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship, which play a fundamental role in Judaism and most forms of Christianity.

They include instructions to worship only God and to keep the Sabbath, and prohibitions against idolatry, blasphemy, murder, theft, and adultery.

Different groups follow slightly different traditions for interpreting and numbering them.

According to the synoptic gospels, Christ generalised the law into two underlying principles ; The first is Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one ; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.

While the second is You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

These are in fact quotes from and.

Barnes ' Notes on the New Testament comments on these verses saying: " These comprehend the substance of what Moses in the law, and what the prophets have spoken.

What they have said has been to endeavour ( sic ) to win men to the love of God and each other.

Love to God and man comprehends the whole religion ; and to produce this has been the design of Moses, the prophets, the Saviour, and the apostles.