Eternal Covenant

This is the Ten Words of the Contract between YAHUWAH and His people. This Contract, often called the Ten Commandments, was written in the handwriting of YAHUWAH and stored in the Ark of the Covenant. Whoever breaks this Eternal Contract is cut off from the assembly of His people, unless they repent and sin no more. (Sin means to live outside YHWH's Commandments)

1st agreement: YHWH introduces Himself

I AM YAHUWAH your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mizraim, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other elohim (deities) besides Me. 

2nd agreement: YHWH prohibits the worship of any other deities

You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of that which is in the heavens above, or which is in the earth beneath, or which is in the waters under the earth, you do not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, YAHUWAH your Elohim is a jealous Elohim, visiting the crookedness of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing loving-commitment to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commands. 

3rd agreement: YHWH sets apart His Name

You shall not take the Name of YAHUWAH your Elohim in vain; for YAHUWAH will not leave the one unpunished who takes His Name in vain.

4th agreement: YHWH designates a special day for rest and worship

Remember the seventh day, to set it apart. Six days you labor, and shall do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of YAHUWAH your Elohim: in it you shall not do any work- you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days YAHUWAH made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore YAHUWAH blessed the Shabbat day and set it apart.

5th agreement: YHWH establishes household authority
Respect your father and your mother, so that your days are prolonged upon the soil which YAHUWAH your Elohim is giving you.

6th agreement: YHWH sets apart life

You shall not murder. 

7th agreement: YHWH sets apart marriage
You shall not commit adultery. 

8th agreement: YHWH sets moral standard 

You shall not steal.

9th agreement: YHWH sets equal right
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

10th agreement: YHWH establishes protection of property

You shall not covet your neighbor's house, you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, or whatever belongs to your neighbor.

The Eternal Ten Agreement

And now, if you diligently obey My Voice and keep My Covenant, then you shall be My treasured possession above all the people: for the earth is Mine- and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a set-apart nation Ex 19:5-6 

Today YAHUWAH your Elohim is commanding you to do these statutes and right-rulings. And you shall guard and do them with all your thoughts and with all your being. You have today avouched YAHUWAH this day to be your Elohim, and to walk in His ways and keep His statutes, and His commands, and His right-rulings, and to obey His voice. And YAHUWAH has avouched you this day to be His people, a treasured possession, as He has spoken to you, and to keep all His commands; so as to set you high above all nations which He has made, for a praise, and for a name, and for esteem, and for you to be set-apart people to YAHUWAH your Elohim, as He has spoken Deut 26:16-19

And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the right-rulings which I teach you, for to do them, that you may live, and shall go in and possess the land {Renew Yahusalem} which YAHUWAH the Elohim of your fathers is giving you. Do not add to the Word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of YAHUWAH your Elohim which I command you Deut 4:1-2 

See, I am sending a Messenger {Comforter} before you to guard you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. Beware of Him and obey His voice. Do not rebel against Him, for He is not going to pardon your transgression, for My Name is in Him. But if you diligently obey His voice and shall do all that I speak, then I shall be enemy to your enemies and a distresser to those who distress you. For My Messenger shall go before you and shall bring you in to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and Yebusites, and I shall cut them off. Do not bow down to their deities, nor serve them, nor do according to their works: but you shall utterly overthrow them, and without fail break down their images. And you shall serve YAHUWAH your Elohim, and He shall bless your bread and your water. And I shall remove sickness from your midst Ex 23:20-26

Therefore, thus said YAHUWAH, "If you turn back, then I shall bring you back. Before Me shall you stand. And if you take out precious from the worthless, you shall become My mouth. Let them return to you, but you do not return to them. And I shall make you to this people a strong bronze wall. And they shall fight against you, but not overcome you. For I am with you to save and deliver you, declares YAHUWAH. And I shall deliver you from the hand of evil-doers, and I shall ransom you from the grip of the ruthless Jer 15:19-21 

And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other elohim, neither let it be heard out of your mouth Ex 23:13