{"id":224,"date":"2012-06-11T06:25:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T06:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noahideworldcenter.org\/ask\/2012\/06\/11\/ten-commandments-for-noahides\/"},"modified":"2012-06-11T06:25:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T06:25:57","slug":"ten-commandments-for-noahides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/ten-commandments-for-noahides\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Commandments for Noahides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Q: <\/strong>Is it true that the Ten Commandments\u00a0do not apply\u00a0to non-Jews?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Q: <\/strong>Is it true that the Ten Commandments\u00a0do not apply\u00a0to non-Jews?\u00a0I do not understand. Shouldn&#8217;t such commands as to\u00a0honor\u00a0a father or\u00a0mother\u00a0or\u00a0the prohibition of\u00a0adultery be\u00a0respected by all mankind?\u00a0Does this mean\u00a0that\u00a0non-Jews are not bound by these commands?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>A: <\/strong><strong>I\u00a0do not know any source for such a statement.\u00a0It is true that the Ten Commandments\u00a0were\u00a0specifically given\u00a0to the\u00a0Jews, as is indicated by the\u00a0first commandment:\u00a0&#171;I am the Lord\u00a0your God\u00a0who <em>brought you out of the land of\u00a0Egypt<\/em>.&#187; Similarly\u00a0the reason for the command to\u00a0rest\u00a0on Shabbat is, according to the version of\u00a0of the Ten Commandments in Deuteronomy, &#171;Remember\u00a0that\u00a0<em>you were\u00a0a slave<\/em> in Egypt.&#187; And the reason given for the command to respect\u00a0parents is,\u00a0&#171;So that\u00a0your days <em>on the land\u00a0that God gave you <\/em>will be increased.&#187;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>However,\u00a0the Ten\u00a0Commandments correspond in essence\u00a0to natural moral duties and\u00a0to the\u00a0Noachide\u00a0laws,\u00a0which were in effect before the\u00a0revelation\u00a0at Mount Sinai.\u00a0A\u00a0non-Jew\u00a0is therefore\u00a0bound by the requirements of the Ten Commandments to respect\u00a0parents\u00a0or\u00a0not to commit\u00a0adultery,\u00a0because\u00a0the formal source\u00a0of these\u00a0commands\u00a0is older than the specific text.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Is it true that the Ten Commandments\u00a0do not apply\u00a0to non-Jews?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2688,3023],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-commandments","category-customs-and-practices"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}