How many of the Ten Commandments do you know by heart?

[John Dibble]

I thought this would be an interesting exercise for the forum. Without looking them up, how many of the Biblical God's Ten Commandments given to Moses can you recall just from memory? I got nine of them, forgetting one I really shouldn't have since it's one of the more well known ones.

You can check your answers by highlighting the text below:

1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain
4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy
5. Honour thy father and thy mother
6. Thou shalt not kill (murder)
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery
8. Thou shalt not steal
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour
10. Thou shalt not covet

[7,052,770]

All, because they taught them to us in public school

[angus]

I came up with 8.  I could probably have thought of two more, but I got impatient and highlighted the text.  I missed number 3 and number 9.

[DC Al Fine]

I forgot false witness. Got the other 9 though.

[Blue3]

Not fair, some denominations combine the first two and split the last one.

[dead0man]

no murder,no adultery,no false idolizing,no coveting of your neighbor's junk,no stealing, no lying, ....I need to go back to Sunday School.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Unsurprisingly I got them all. I have an uncanny ability for memorizing things like that, sort of like how I have memorized how every stated has voted in every election for the past 40 years at least, and memorized basically the entire employee handbook and internal knowledge base at work (which is why I was selected to assist with training.)

[Redalgo]

I thought that I had three. It turns out only two of them were correct. I'm not much for rote memory unless a subject is of exceptional interest to me. xD

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Got 6/10: missed 3, 4, 9, and 10 I believe.

[Lambsbread]

8. I forgot graven image and bearing false witness.

[tmthforu94]

All of them. I even have a song for it!!

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

All of them, but then I also know the entire Doom of the Noldor, so...

[Oldiesfreak1854]

All of them.  And I can recite the whole thing, not just the part that contains the actual command.

[The Mikado]

The Jewish, Catholic, or Protestant numbering?  Because they're quite different.

The list I grew up with was (done from memory):

1.  I am the LORD your God.  (Some branches treat this as a preamble to the rest, others treat it like its own commandment)
2.  You shall have no other gods before Me.
3.  You shall not take the LORD's name in vain.
4.  You shall honor the Sabbath day.
5.  You shall honor your father and mother.
6.  You shall not kill.
7.  You shall not steal.
8.  You shall not commit adultery.
9.  You shall not bear false witness.
10.  You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, manservant, maidservant, ox, ass, or anything else that is your neighbor's.