10 Commandments

   It's common knowledge right, the 10 commandments. "Can you name them"? "Can you name one, say the 4th"? "um, well..."

   To my horror I recently realized that I didn't know them. I set out together with my husband to learn them straight away. I'm not very disciplined with in myself so I'm taking the easy route and learning them simplistically first. Then I'll learn the actual verses. Here's how I did it:

  

    I am using hand gestures as a sort of memory trick. There are many ways to learn the 10 commandments in this manner. I suggest you view many and take from each one the gesture that makes the idea stick for you. Since my camera batteries are dead at the moment I'll just write them out and trust that you'll be enthusiastic enough about God's word to seek out videos on your own. It really did only take about 15 minutes or less for me to get this. 

1- There is only one God

(index finger pointing upward)

2- no idols

(use both index fingers bending one as if it's bowing to the other)

3 - Don't take the Lord's name in vain

(use the standard finger gesture for the number 3 it also forms the letter 'W' - for the word 'word' cover your lips with these 3 fingers to remind yourself not to use your lips)

4- keep the Sabbath holy

(use the first 2 fingers on each hand pointing them downward to suggest a chair or bed to rest on bringing to mind that God rested on the 7th day)

5 - Honor your father and mother

(keeping one of your hands flat fingers together make a downward swoop with your hand as if spanking a child, I remembered this one first because it was so cute)

6 - don't murder

(hold up one hand, fingers apart these fingers represent people. Point your index finger of your other hand at these 5 'people' indicating shooting them. *remember not to use your thumb as a trigger for your finger gun because having 7 fingers raised may throw off your commandment order and make things difficult to keep straight*)

7 - no adultery

(hold up 5 fingers on one hand again representing multiple spouses. hold up 2 fingers on the other hand  representing a proper husband and wife)

8- don't steal

(hold up all of your 8 fingers tucking in your thumbs. The idea is that in some countries they still cut off your thumbs for theft)

9- don't lie

(hold up four fingers of one hand and lay the entire other hand on an "air Bible" as if being sworn in for court)

10 - don't covet

(using both hands make a grabbing gesture into the air)

Exodus 20 KJV:
2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee 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:
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 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, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 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 the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. 

OR

Deuteronomy 5 KJV

 ¹And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
 ²The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
 ³The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
 ⁴The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
 ⁵(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,
 ⁶I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
 ⁷Thou shalt have none other gods before me.
 ⁸Thou shalt not make thee 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 waters beneath the earth:
 ⁹Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
 ¹⁰And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
 ¹¹Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
 ¹²Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.
 ¹³Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:
 ¹⁴But 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 manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
 ¹⁵And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
 ¹⁶Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
 ¹⁷Thou shalt not kill.
 ¹⁸Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
 ¹⁹Neither shalt thou steal.
 ²⁰Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
 ²¹Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.
 ²²These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.