| Number | Ten Words | Blessing | Curse |
| I | I am Elohim, your Elohim who liberated you from the land of Egypt, from a house of servitude. There shall not be to you other Elohim. You shall not make for yourselves a carved thing or any formed thing that is in the heavens above, or that is on the earth below, or that is in the waters under the earth. You shall not bow down to them, and you shall not serve them. I am Elohim your Elohim. | Blessed is the man who loves Elohim his Elohim and worships Him alone and serves Him alone. | Cursed is the man who makes a carved thing or a molten thing, the work of a sculptor’s hands. |
| II | Sanctify [the seventh day, and you shall cease on it because in] six days I made the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them, and I ceased on the seventh day, therefore you shall also cease, you and your animal and all that is yours. I am Elohim your Elohim. | Blessed is the man who sanctifies the seventh day and ceases thereon. | Cursed is the man who does work on the seventh day to profane it. |
| III | Honor your father and your mother [thereby lengthening your days.] I am Elohim your Elohim. | Blessed is the man who honors his father and his mother. | Cursed is one who esteems his father and his mother lightly. |
| IV | You shall not kill the soul of your brother. I am Elohim your Elohim. | Blessed is the man who does not take vengeance and does not hold a grudge against the soul of his brother. | Cursed is one who strikes his neighbor in secret. |
| V | You shall not commit adultery with the woman of your neighbor. I am Elohim your Elohim. | Blessed is the man who does not defile his neighbor’s woman. | Cursed is the man who draws near to any close relative, or who commits adultery with his neighbor’s woman, or who lies with any animal. |
| VI | You shall not steal the property of your brother. I am Elohim your Elohim. | Blessed is the man who does not wrong his neighbor. | Cursed is one who moves his neighbor’s land boundary. |
| VII | You shall not swear in My Name to deceive because I will avenge the iniquity of fathers upon children unto a third and unto a fourth for lifting My Name to deceive. I am Elohim your Elohim. | Blessed is the man who does not swear in My Name to deceive. | Cursed is the man who swears by My Name to deceive. |
| VIII | You shall not respond against your brother with a testimony of deceit. I am Elohim your Elohim. | Blessed is the man who does not deal falsely and does not practice deceit with his neighbor. | Cursed is one who takes a bribe to testify deceitfully against his associate. |
| IX | You shall not desire [your neighbor’s] woman, his servant, his maidservant, or anything that is his. I am Elohim your Elohim. | Blessed is the man who does not lift his eyes toward the property of his neighbor. | Cursed is the man who lifts his eyes toward his neighbor’s woman, or toward his house, or toward his maidservant, or toward all that is his. |
| X | You shall not hate your brother in your heart. I am Elohim your Elohim. | Blessed is the man who loves his neighbor. | Cursed is the man who hates his brother in his heart. |
| Elohim spoke these ten words | Blessed is the man who establishes all the words of this Teaching to do them. | Cursed is the man who does not establish all the words of this Teaching to do them. |
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