Commandments

The Law of Moses Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy Over 600 Commandments Given to the Israelites

Deuteronomy:23:12-13 12 Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself. 13 As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement.

Who Were the Israelites? Descended from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob God Called Abraham Jacob renamed Israel Jacob took his family to Egypt to seek refuge from a terrible famine in the Land of Canaan 215 years later Moses led Jacob’s descendants, the Israelites, out of Egypt

1804 Thomas Jefferson was president

1804 in the United States Thomas Jefferson was president We were fighting in the 1st Barbary War

1804 in the United States Thomas Jefferson was president We were fighting in the 1st Barbary War Lewis & Clark Expedition began

1804 in the United States Thomas Jefferson was president We were fighting in the 1st Barbary War Lewis & Clark Expedition began John Deere was born

Where were your ancestors? Likely weren’t living in St. Croix county Wisconsin. Mine were in Sweden, Germany, Pennsylvania

The Israelites 215 Years among the Egyptians God Called the Out into the Desert Gave them the Commandments Most Famous being “The Ten Commandments”

Exodus 20:1-3 And God spoke all these words: 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 3 “You shall have no other gods before me.

Exodus 4:13-15 13 Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” 14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’” 15 God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’

Exodus 20:1-3 And God spoke all these words: 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 3 “You shall have no other gods before me.

Deuteronomy 6:4-5 4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

Matthew 6:24 24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Exodus 20:4-6 4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Exodus 20:7 7 “You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.

Exodus 20:8-11 8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Mark 2:27 27 Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

Psalm 119:58-60 58 I have sought your face with all my heart;     be gracious to me according to your promise. 59 I have considered my ways     and have turned my steps to your statutes. 60 I will hasten and not delay     to obey your commands.

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