398 A SHORT VIEW OF SCRIPTURE HISTORY. 2. Howwere these ten commands first given them ? A. By the voice of God on Mount Sinai, three months after their coin- ing out of Egypt ; and it Was attended with thunder, and fire, and smoke, and the sound of a trumpet ; Ex. xix. 13, 19. and xx: 1 -18. 3. Q. Where was this moral law more especially written A. In the two tables of stone which God wrote with his own hand and gave to Moses ; Ex. xxiv. 12. and xxxii. 15, 16. and xxxiv. 1. 4. Q. What did the first table contain ? A. Their duty to- ward God in the four first commandments ; See Ex. xx. 3-11. Dent. v. 6-15, 22. 5. Q. What are these four first commandments ? A 1. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me. -2. Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth : thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them ; for 1, the Lord thy God am ajealous God, visit- ing the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and shewing mercy unto'thousands of them that love me and keep my commaod7 ments.-3. Thou shalt not take the naine of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketli his name in vain -4. Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy 111#11- servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy gates ; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day : wherefore the Lord blessed tho sabbath -day and hallowed it. 6. Q. Is God's resting from his works of creation the seventhday the only reason why the Jews were required to keep, this sabbath or day of rest ? A. This latter part 'of the fourth commandment, viz. 'rite reason of the sabbath, taken from the creation, and God's resting on the seventh day, is entirely omit- ted in the rehearsal of the ten commandments in the fifth of. Deuteronomy : and instead of it, the Jews are required to ob- serve this commandof the sabbath or holy rest for another reason, viz. because they were slaves in Egypt, and God gave them a releaseand rest from their slavery ; Deut. v. 15. Though it is possible both reasons of this command might be pronounced from Mount Sinai, and only that mentioned in Exodusbe writ on the tables of stone. 7. Q, What did the second table contain ? A. Their duty toward roan in the six lastcommandments. Ex. xx.12-17. Deut. y, 16-22.
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