In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “one of the ten commandments”. Today it says “one of the ten commandments found in the torah”.
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The opening as it read in 2015
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy ", is one of the Ten Commandments , which are widely understood as moral imperatives by Jewish, Catholic, Reformation and legal scholars. The book of Exodus describes the Ten Commandments as being spoken by God , inscribed on two stone tablets by the finger of God , broken by Moses , and rewritten on replacements stones by the L ORD .1 The full text of the commandment reads: Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the L ORD your God.2 On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy is one of the Ten Commandments , which are widely understood as moral imperatives by legal scholars, Jewish scholars, Catholic scholars, and Post-Reformation scholars. The book of Exodus describes the Ten Commandments as being spoken by God to Moses, inscribed on two stone tablets by the finger of God, and later written on tablets by Moses. The full text of the commandment reads: Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the L ORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.
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One of the Ten Commandments " Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy " (Hebrew: זָכוֹר אֶת יוֹם הַשַׁבָּת לְקַדְּשׁוֹ) is one of the Ten Commandments found in the Hebrew Bible . The full text of the commandment reads: Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the L ORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
One of the Ten Commandments " Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy " ( ) is one of the Ten Commandments found in the Torah . The full text of the commandment reads: Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the L ORD your God. In it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.
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The opening as it stood in 2025
One of the Ten Commandments " Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy " ( Hebrew : זָכוֹר אֶת יוֹם הַשַׁבָּת לְקַדְּשׁוֹ , romanized : Zāḵōr ’eṯ-yōm haš- šabbāṯ lə- qaddəšōw ) is one of the Ten Commandments found in the Torah . The full text of the commandment reads: Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the L ORD your God. In it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.
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one of the ten commandments
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one of the ten commandments found in the torah
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