The Catholic tradition uses the division of the Commandments established by St. Augustine. (The Lutheran confessions also use this numbering, while some other confessions & traditions use slightly different numberings.)
A comparison of Exodus 20:3-17 using the NASB translation compared to the Catholic Ten Commandments from beginning Catholic.com is provided for a comparison. The Traditional Catechetical Formula follows essentially the same pattern as the Beginning Catholic.com website except as noted.
The major omission in the Catholic list is the injunction against idols. In light of the Roman Catholic position on Mary and the relics one can understand this.
I have no idea why the Roman Catholic Church would not simply use either Exodus 20:3-17 or Deuteronomy 5:7-21 to learn the 10 Commandments other than not to call into question their position on Mary and the relics.
| Exodus 20:3-17. | Beginning Catholic 10 Commandments |
| 3 You shall have no other gods before Me | I am the LORD your God. You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve. NOTE: The Traditional Catechetical Formula reads as follows I am the LORD your God: you shall not have strange Gods before me . |
| 4“You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. 5“You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,6but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. | |
| 7“You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain. | You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain. |
| 8“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9“Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. 11“For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORDblessed the sabbath day and made it holy. | Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day. |
| 12“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you. | Honor your father and your mother. |
| 13“You shall not murder. | You shall not kill. |
| 14“You shall not commit adultery. | You shall not commit adultery. |
| 15“You shall not steal. | You shall not steal. |
| 16“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. | You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. |
| 17“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” | You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. |
| You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods. |
quote-I have no idea why the Roman Catholic Church would not simply use either Exodus 20:3-17 or Deuteronomy 5:7-21 to learn the 10 Commandments other than not to call into question their position on Mary and the relics.
The scriptures note something out of the 4th Beast/Kingdom would think to change times and laws.
Rome has done both.
And the idea/reason for changing times may be a little more deceitful.
a Roman christian pope having a calendar named after him (gregorian), that the world uses to tell time today, is not an accident. it’s prophetic.
And Rome can’t peddle their own Roman Mary or their own Roman Jesus, without having the world follwoing their own Roman calendar.