THE DECALOGUE OF 'J' (10th Cent. BC; Old Testament, Exodus 34.14-28)

1. Thou shall worship no other god.

2. Thou shall make thee no molten gods.

3. The feast of the Passover thou shall keep.

4. The firstling of an ass thou shall redeem with a lamb; all the first born of thy sons thou shall redeem.

5. None shall appear before me empty.

6. Six days thou shall work, but on the seventh thou shall rest.

7. Thou shall observe the feast of in-gathering.

8. Thou shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the sacrifice of the Passover remain until morning.

9. The firstlings of thy flocks thou shall bring unto Yahweh, thy God.

10. Thou shall not seethe a kid in his mother's milk

The Ten Commandments recorded in their more familiar form in Exod. 20.1-17 and Deut. 5.6-21 (presumably from the eighth to sixth centuries BC).

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

2. Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image

3. Thou shalt not lift up the name of Yahweh in vain.

4. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

5. Honor thy father and thy mother

6. Thou shalt do no murder.

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 house.