The Ten Commandments

Introduction

Growing up, my parents hung a sort of taprestry that listed The Ten Commandments on the wall, in the upstairs hallway. Me and my sisters used to sit in the hallway and discuss them, what we thought they meant, and why God would want us to pratice such commands. I think many people have misinterpreted them through years of disinformation and misunderstandings. I've chosen to update the language into modern English. Most bible translations leave Old English in the bones of the text, which is comprehensible if you understand enough Old English. But most people do not, and that's okay. Along with modern American English interpretations of the commandments, I will also list older interpretations of their phrasing to help explain how I've reached the conclusions I have.

While throughout time The Ten Commandments have been used more as a way of describing their opposite, focusing on a negative interpretation, as an excuse to punish others in the name of "sin". Sin is not a matter of crime, bad or good, right or wrong. It is a matter of happiness. Should your actions, whether intentionally or not, bring immense suffering to others, you have then and only then commmited a sin in the eyes of I am.
The greatest sin you can commit against I am is denying I am the right to exist as I am. This, I've named "soulcrushing," which I'll now define here, below:

Soulcrushing
verb

The act of forcing another one to be the same one as you.

*another one meaning person (entity), I am, one, individual.

Now, let's begin.

0.I am the I am, the Lord, your God

I am the Lord, thy God

I am YHWH (יהוה), thy God.

“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.” - Exodus 20:2-3

*The Lord is an interpretation of (יהוה) YHWH.

YHWH, (or Yahweh) is not a name as we understand it. God does not have a name, because God is every name, and every name is God.
אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה
I am that I am
I am that I am, the Lord, your God
God is I am. When you say the words I am, no matter the language, you are recognizing the God in you. We are all God, as God is all of us. God is the original one. God divided herself/himself/theirself (1) by herself/himself/theirself (1) to create another one (1). 1 ÷ 1 = 1. We are all one.

1. You shall not have any other gods above Me

Thou shalt have no other other gods before me

“You shall have no other gods before Me.” - Exodus 20:4-6

God commands against putting any singular one over another one, it is mathematically impossible anyway. Me as in one, as in God--the monad--as in you. Yes, you who are reading this, and every other you who has ever been, or ever will be.

2. You shall not make any graven images to worship above God

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image

“You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.” - Exodus 20:7

God commands not against the creation of art, statues, drawings, or temples--but instead, against the worship of mere imitations above the one--the monad--God.
God is jealous of humans worshipping our mere imitations as above her/him/them.

“If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it.” - Roald Dahl

*Pure Imagination was a poem by Roald Dahl--author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory--not just a song. He wrote many poems. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory holds a few.

3. You shall not use God's name in vain

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain

“You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.” - Exodus 20:7

Do not use the name of God to justify your sins or abuse fellow ones.

This is not about swearing, or saying "God," or "Yahweh," or "God damnit!" I promise. That's just a very silly misconception due to troubles with the English language, translation, and interpretation.

Vain
adject

Lacking substance or worth.
Having or showing excessive pride in one's appearance or accomplishments; conceited.

Do not claim to do something in the name of God only to fuel your ego or excuse your sins.

4. Remember the day of rest, to stay whole

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.” - Exodus 20:8-11

God urged his people--chosen because of their faith, not their skin--to remember to rest. Seven is a holy number. Rainbows (the light spectrum revealed to the human eye by light refracting through water) posseses seven colors. The word RAINBOW possesss seven letters.

People of little faith find the idea of God resting strange, I do not. Rest does not neccesarily mean physical sleeping or mending, God rested on the seventh day by just being, as opposed to the active state of creating. The truest form of rest is the state of just being, like meditation, as is understood in Bhudism. Sleep is the deepest form of meditation for a being of flesh, God commands our rest; he/she/they command our meditation--as it is whole--wholly--holy.

5. Respect your father and your mother

Honour thy father and thy mother

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.” - Exodus 20:12

While many people have parents whom they resent for justifiable and unjustifiable reasons, the command holds true. Your parents partook in a sacred act of creation, you would not exist without them, honor their giving you life, as you would honor God for the same.

“...Honor the body that bore thee, and the breasts that gave thee suck, maintain thy parents, for thy parents took part in thy creation. For man owes his existence to God, to his father, and to his mother, in that he receives from each of his parents five of the parts of his body, and ten from God. The bones, the veins, the nails, the brain, and the white of the eye come from the father. The mother gives him skin, flesh, blood, hair, and the pupil of the eye. God gives him the following: breath, soul, light of countenance, sight, hearing, speech, touch, sense, insight, and understanding...but if people do not honor their parents, God say: "It is good that I do not dwell among men, or they would have treated Me superciliously, too."” - Legends of the Jews Vol. III

You do not have to stay in contact with abusive parents, but you are commanded to acknowledge the reality of your existence. God detests lies, whether they bring you comfort or not. There's not many things more harmful to oneself than lying to onself. Being bore by painful circumstance does not devalue your life, it is important to acknowledge who you truly are, you are of your parents--whether they hurt you or not--but they do not define you. To reject your parents as your creators for sinning against you is to imply their sins are inherited--they are not.

6. You shall not murder

Thou shalt not kill

“Thou shalt not kill.” - Exodus 20:13

This one is pretty straighforward. While commonly translated as "kill" the more accurate word in English would be "murder."

רָצַח
verb

To murder (to kill deliberately).

Muder
noun

The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the crime of killing a person with malice aforethought or with recklessness manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life.

Kill
intransitive verb

To put to death.
To deprive of life.
To put an end to; extinguish.

7. You shall not commit adultery

Thou shalt not commit adultery

“Thou shalt not commit adultery.” - Exodus 20:14

God commands against adultery, or in modern terms--cheating.

Adultery
noun

Consensual sexual intercourse between a married person and a person other than the spouse.
The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.

8. You shall not, steal, kidnap, or trick

Thou shalt not steal

“Thou shalt not steal.” - Exodus 20:15

You may be wondering where I got kidnap and trick from. Well, from Hebrew:

תִּגְנֹב
verb

To steal.
To carry away secretly.
To deceive through trickery.

It was often used to describe various kinds of theft, including kidnapping.

English is a language of many limitations, I've learned as I've learned other languages, such as Japanese. It's easy to miss meanings and contexts in our translations using our sometimes relatively limited vocabulary. Thankfully, English is growing. Every language has strenghts and weaknesses. I just wish we would stop with the useless slang, replacing an old word with a new one for the sake of appearing cool. Slang can be fine, I use some, but the internet is really bad with what I'm talking about; it's often stolen from African American Language and misused (appropriated).

9. You shall not defame and bear false witness against your fellow ones

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour

“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.” - Exodus 20:16

God commands you do not lie in order to slander innocent people. Do not accuse an innocent of a sin you know in your heart they did not commit. Do not be so quick to defame and accuse those of which you do not know of commiting sins you have not witnessed.
All are fellow ones. There is no exception in this role. God calls all of us our neighbors. All other ones that you witness are your neighbors, be kind to them.

Neighbor
noun

One who lives near or next to another.
A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another.
A fellow human.

We are all adjacent, near, and connected to one another in the circle--the spiral--the ever expanding, ever contracting, ever spinning hoop of mother Earth, of existence--of God--I am.

10. You shall not covet your neighbors posessions, wealth, family, or person

Thou shalt not covet

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.” - Exodus 20:17

Covet
intransitive verb

To feel strong or immoderate desire for (that which is another's).
To covet that which is another's.

God commands against envy in any form it takes. Whether you envy the spirit, their family, or their possesions, God commands against this behavior--and yes--even these thoughts. Like all ten of God's Holy Commandments, harboring these thoughts in your soul, or acting on them with your body, is mutually destructive towards yourself and the one you think or act against.